About The Links, Incorporated
The Links, Incorporated celebrates 70 years as a women’s volunteer service organization committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the cultural and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry. A premier international service organization with more than 12,000 members in 280 chapters located in 41 states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, its legacy of friends providing service that changes lives, established by the original circle of nine friends in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1946, is alive and well. The Links Foundation, Incorporated, the philanthropic arm of The Links, Incorporated, has made more than $25 million in charitable contributions since its founding. With more than 2 million service hours recorded in the past three years, members regularly contribute more than 500,000 documented service hours in their respective communities annually. The Links, Incorporated: “Linked in Friendship, Connected in Service.” For more information, visit www.linksinc.org. The Cincinnati (OH) Chapter was chartered on March 30, 1950, making it the 17th chapter to be established in Linkdom. Over the course of the past 65 years, the Cincinnati (OH) Chapter has produced one National President, Central Area Director, both held by Vivian Beamon; 2 National Arts Chairs Margaret Hough and Yvonne Robertson and several national and area appointees. The Cincinnati (OH) Chapter’s mission is to give service to humankind and to improve the quality of life for people in the communities where we live and the people we serve. Chapter programs, as with all Links chapters, fall within five facets: National Trends and Services, The Arts, Services to Youth, International Trends and Services, and most recently, Health and Wellness. Through their programs, the Cincinnati Chapter of The Links, Incorporated has positively impacted thousands of people in our region and contributed over $1.2 million back into the community. For more information, please visit our website at www.cincinnatilinks.org.
