Chapter Accomplishments and Highlights
For Students
• Annually award scholarships to students from South Florida attending Spelman College.
• Hosted Blue Diamond Teen Brunch for top female high school students in West Palm Beach.
• Sent care packages to freshman from South Florida attending Spelman College.
• Participated in local college fairs to inform and recruit students.
• Attend Admissions Office receptions.
• Provide holiday socials and gifts and supplies to freshman, sophomores, junior and seniors returning to Spelman.
Community Service
• Participated in annual in 5K races for charities. Have raised over $1,000 for these charities (Susan Komen Race for the Cure, Sickle Cell Disease Association of Miami, Martin Luther King, Jr. 5K)
• Established a relationship with 100 Black Men of South Florida and serve as volunteers to assist with their annual Christmas shopping spree for underprivileged children sponsored by Target and Walmart.
• Served as Presenting Sponsor for the Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers Association Judicial Candidate Breakfast.
Social/Fellowship
• Quarterly meetings in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.
• Hold annual Spelman/Morehouse College summer socials for students and alumni.
• Host annual Founders Day worship service and meeting.
• Attend book signings for former Spelman College President Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum and alumna Tayari Jones.
• Host game nights, happy hours and holiday socials.
• Reserved table at United Way Annual Women’s Breakfast where Dr. Johnnetta Cole spoke.
• Attend events throughout South Florida.
Fundraisers
• Hosted Summer Soul: Party With A Purpose Fundraiser from 2001-2005. Awarded scholarships and honored alumnae.
• Hosts All That Jazz: Scholarship Fundraiser from 2006-Present. Award scholarships and honor alumnae and Civic Leaders.
• Sold group tickets to The Lion King and Alvin Ailey at the Arsht Center and Motown the Musical at the Kravis Center.
• Created chapter t-shirts and note cards.
• Raffled tickets for participation in the Winterfest Boat Parade.
Programs
General Body Membership Meetings and Events, Student/Alumnae Gatherings, Mentorship And Support, College Fairs, All That Jazz Scholarship Fundraiser, and Honoring A Legacy of Leaders luncheon.
All That Jazz
Annual scholarship fundraiser
Scholarships
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Scholarship Recipients
Every year the South Florida NAASC awards scholarships to students from South Florida who attend Spelman College and demonstrate academic excellence and a commitment to community service.
Alumnae Honorees
2019
Traci Cloyd, Betty Davis, Novice Johnson, Wanda Bland Randall
2018
Dr. Sheila Chamberlain, Lt. Commander(Sel.) La'Shanda Holmes and Erika Marshall
2017
Helen Dorsett, Lydia Jones Neasman, Effie B. Williams, Evelyn Campbell, Janie Owens Peters, Elizabeth McDugle Davis A. Merita Mitchell, Dr. Dorothy Jenkins Fields, and Dr. Augustine McDaniel
2016
Cynthia Cox Barnum, Dr. Christine Beliard, Verbena Brown Cummings, Dr. Dorothy Jenkins Fields, Florence Greer, Lindsey Goldman, Dr. Hillary Jones, Mia Harmon, Bernadette Poitier, Anita Richardson & Tawnicia Rowan
2012
Ardra Davis
2011
Judy Jones McKinley
2010
Florence Greer
2009
Tishria Mindingall
2008
Brenda A. Williams
2007
Bernadette C. Poitier
2006
Yvonne R. Jackson
2005
Aundrella Hamed
2004
Karen Moore
2003
June King Poitier
2002
Traci Cloyd & Wilhelmina Chapman Rhetta
2001
Dr. Dorothy Jenkins Fields
Community Honorees
2019
Dexter Bridgeman, Rodney Baltimore
2018
Barrington Irving, Operation SAFEE Flight and the Miami Chapter of the Tuskeege Airman, Inc.
2016
Honorable Dr. Dorothy Bendross Mindingall, Robert Runcie & Noble Lockhart Mays
2012
Honorable Betty T. Ferguson
2011
Honorable Shirley Gibson
2010
Drs. George Battle, John McAdory & Joseph Poitier
2009
Alumna Kwanza Clay Bowe
2008
Jesse and Cheryl Tyson