Fraternity Announces Successful 1st Annual Sunday of Hope Program

(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), March 2008 - Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. recently announced that its 1st Annual Sunday of Hope (SOH) program exceeded its initial goal for fundraising.  The SOH program is a partnership with the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.  The fraternity committed to raising a minimum of $500,000 over a five-year period to support the hospital’s initiatives through a cooperative between members and various churches across the country starting January 2008.  After a recent conference with Kappa officials and key members of St. Jude, it was announced that the Sunday programs have raised over $200,000 to date.  Coupled with the fraternity’s previous donation of $110,000 brings Kappa’s total contributions to over $300,000 after the first year.

Grand Polemarch (CEO) Dwayne M. Murray, Esq. is excited with the progress of the program.  “We are answering the call to service.  Our partnership with St. Jude is a relationship of substance being replicated on all levels of the fraternity.  Our membership truly understands that service to others is real service to Kappa.,” said Murray during a recent telephone conference with the St. Jude SOH Committee.”

St. Jude has invited the leadership of Kappa to Memphis this May to celebrate the program’s overwhelming success.  Also, joining the group will be the pastors of the top ten (10) contributing churches.  Highlights of the celebration will be taped and included in a television special that St. Jude is producing for later in the year.  The program is expected to conclude in 2010 with the dedication of the lobby in the Translational Trials Unit wing of the hospital being named for the fraternity.

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Kappa Alpha Psi News Wire