Alpha Kappa Alpha gifts Morris Brown with $100,000 donation for endowment, financial stability

ATLANTA — Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated Morris Brown College with a $100,000 donation to establish an endowment for scholarships and to bolster the university’s sustainability.

“Alpha Kappa Alpha is pleased to make this donation to Morris Brown College, as we continue our support of the county’s HBCUs,” AKA International President and CEO Dr. Glenda Glover said on Wednesday.

Glover presented Morris Brown president Kevin James with a check on behalf of the organization during a ceremony on Wednesday.

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“I want to thank Alpha Kappa Alpha for their dedication to HBCUs and especially for the sorority’s commitment to strengthening our endowment, which could not have come at a better time with our full accreditation announcement,” said James. “I want to thank President Glenda Glover for her leadership and to all the AKAs for their continued support as we continue our quest to restoring Morris Brown to her former glory.”

The sorority’s donation highlights an initiative under Glover’s leadership, called HBCU for Life: A Call to Action initiative.

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Glover implemented the program when she took over leadership of the sorority in 2018, officials said.

The gift to Morris Brown is part of a four-year $10 million goal to ensure financial stability for accredited HBCUs around the country, the sorority said in a statement.

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“We started this journey in 2018 with a goal of raising $1 million in one day. Certainly, unchartered territory,” said Glover, who is also president of her alma mater, Tennessee State University. “We had the audacity to believe we could raise $1 million in one day. And we did it then, as well as in 2019 and 2020, by exceeding our million-dollar goal. And in 2021, to raise more than $2.4 million in our final year, was simply phenomenal.”

Morris Brown recently regained its accreditation after the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools voted to restore its status at the end of April, Channel 2′s Tom Regan learned.

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