EVENTS
Scholarship Breakfast
Vet's Stand Down
MLK Day Parade
Golf Tournament
Holiday Ball
Padres Training NEW

Local Alpha History – San Diego, California

• Alumni Chapter: Zeta Sigma Lambda, founded 1957
• College Chapter: Eta Sigma, founded 1972, University of California, San Diego, San Diego State University

Martin Luther King Jr. Pageant

The Pageant’s purpose is to showcase the talents of youth from San Diego’s high schools. Candidates are encouraged to participate in a series of educational and cultural seminars throughout the year, and are presented to the community in a formal banquet event. Candidates are then encouraged to help fund the program by selling advertisements to the pageant’s souvenir program. In this way, they learn some of the basics of economics. All monies collected go toward cash awards they receive at the conclusion of the program. Candidates are judged at a gala event where the royal court is selected. They are then feted in the annual MLK Day Parade.

Continued Academic Excellence Program (CAEP)

This long-running program, conducted at local high schools, features mentoring services, self-esteem workshops, and provides scholarship information to high school juniors and seniors when they matriculate to college. At the culmination of the program, book scholarships are awarded to each student during their first semester of college.

Project Alpha

The March of Dimes and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. began collaboratively implementing Project Alpha in 1980. Designed to provide young men in our community with current and accurate information about teenage pregnancy prevention, Project Alpha consists of a series of workshops and informational sessions conducted by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity brothers.
The three goals of Project Alpha programs are:

• Sharing knowledge by combating ignorance and fear with factual information.
• Changing attitudes by providing motivation toward positive changes in sexual behavior.
• Providing skills by creating a sense of empowerment and self-esteem.