"Girl Friend, Aunt Pat, you really got it going on! Thanks for being an
"Auntee Role Model"! A Free Tutoring Service: Preparing For the Future
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"Girl Friend, Aunt Pat, you really got it going on! Thanks for being an
"Auntee Role Model"!
I can think of no other "Sista" more deserving of the "Women of Worth Nominee Award" Take a look at what is shown below, and you will see what I mean!" Visit the www.weteachfree.com website to see Mrs. Patricia Kirk-McAlpine at work with the underprivileged, as well as the well-to-do students of our communities! Her contribution to "A Free Tutoring Service" is shown below! Please go to Previous Page for Patricia's quest to receive the $5,000 Award and the Free Tutoring Service that is slated to receive it if she is a winner!
WOMEN
OF WORTH
2006 Nomination Package
I. Nominee’s Name: Mrs. Patricia Kirk-McAlpine
III.
Overview
of Service: Combined Federal Campaign (CFC)
a.
Greater Los Angeles Combined Federal
Campaign cabinet member. Largest
workforce giver in
b.
During her service the funds raised
and distributed as a result of fundraising are providing food, shelter and
services to people in need and in turn benefiting communities across the entire
country.
c.
CFC continues to provide aid for many
charities as well as critical supports to the victims of Hurricanes Katrina, and
Rita.
d. Personally initiated and co-chaired with a celebrity golf tournament that was planned and executed in weeks raising over $8,000 that was provided to families of 9/11 victims who suddenly found themselves without a source of income.
WOMEN
OF WORTH
2006 Nomination Package
III.
Overview of Service: Habitat
for Humanity International/Habitat for Humanity –
A.
Habitat for Humanity board member,
advisory board member, and chair community outreach and chair corporate
fundraising committee.
B.
Service provided over 50 homes for
poor and homeless families in the greater
C.
During the course of Mrs. Kirk-McAlpine’s
service over 100 children were provided a decent and safe environment to play,
learn and grow. What was an open
field and abandoned houses where crimes festered are now decent homes and
playgrounds for families who were living in deplorable and substandard
conditions.
D.
She personally initiated
and served as task force chair-raising over $50,000 to build a home for a needy
family with the help and resources from the 800 members of the Southern
California Chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
Many of the members of her chapter along besides Pat personally helped to
build the new home in South Central Los Angeles.
Pat used her innovation to devise and spearhead a fundraiser called build
a house A Thon that allowed all of the donated funds to go toward the 50,000
cost of the home vice to a restaurant or hotel.
The majority of the 50,000 was raised through this fundraiser.
E.
Media coverage (see attached
article).
WOMEN
OF WORTH
2006
Nomination Package
II.
Period of Service:
2005 and On-Going
III.
Overview of Service:
King-Drew Medical Pediatric Ward
A.
King-Drew Medical Pediatric Ward
providing nurturing to babies born to drug addicted mothers and to children
abused and neglected.
B.
Community
needs to take care of the children who cannot care for themselves addressed.
C.
Countless children received care and
compassion that an overburdened staff could not adequately provide.
This support to the nurturing of infants and toddlers in their early
development is critical to ensure that they grow to the productive and viable
members of society.
D.
Pat gained the support of the
sorority members to support these babies and small children.
Support often given to others but first for children this young and
small.
WOMEN
OF WORTH
2006
Nomination Package
I.
Nominee’s Name:
Mrs. Patricia Kirk-McAlpine
A.
Mrs. Kirk-McAlpine is a life member
of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority serving in every capacity including chapter
President for this social service based organization.
B.
As a member of this world wide
sorority and as a senior government executive, Mrs. Kirk-McAlpine coaches,
teaches and mentors young women on the value, need, and benefits of a college
education.
C.
Awarded over $30,000 scholarships to
college bound young women. Young
women who otherwise would have been unable to attend college.
D. Mrs. Kirk-McAlpine has hosted numerous career days with her organization. She visits and speaks at schools and colleges to promote scholarships and the furtherance of education. In addition recognizing that these young women from poor neighborhoods must be able to interact and be a part of mainstream America, she developed a social skills workshop that has been used to train on such simple things as (which was unknown in these young ladies) as which fork to use when dinning.
2006 Nomination Package
I. Nominee’s Name: Mrs. Patricia Kirk-McAlpine
A.
Sister Study – National Institute
of Health and Breast Cancer Research volunteer and community outreach speaker. Every
three minutes another woman dies of breast cancer.
Another wife, daughter, mother or sister is lost.
Mrs. Kirk-McAlpine is an absolutely dedicated volunteer in getting the
word out and recruiting participants for breast cancer research.
A cure for breast cancer must we found, Pat is doing her part.
B.
Pat’s efforts address the need of
saving women’s lives; savings wives, mothers, daughter now and with a cure for
generations to come.
C.
Due to Pat and other great volunteers
over 26,000 of the 50, 000 women needed to participate in the study have
volunteered and become participants. Many
due to the dedication of Mrs. Kirk-McAlpine have joined this study.
D.
Pat has taken the material from NIH
and developed a commanding slide show presentation that informs, educates and
inspires participation in the study. Her
presentation has been presented to hundreds of women.
E.
See attached pages from Sister
website.
WOMEN OF WORTH
2006 Nomination Package
I.
Nominee’s Name:
Mrs. Patricia Kirk-McAlpine
II.
Period of Service:
2000 and Continuing
III.
Overview:
A
Free Tutoring Service
A.
Pat is a volunteer for a free
tutoring service. She teaches
classes on career choices and gives motivational talks on the importance of
education and making wise life choices – avoiding drugs, gangs and alcohol.
It is extraordinary in that over 300 middle and high school students have
received “free” tutoring – absolutely no cost – been taken to visit the
California State Capital first plane rides and exposed to art museums and
science foundations; things that had only read about.
B.
C.
Over 300 students have reaped the
benefits of needed extra help to become students who are attending classes and
who are no longer failing but now making As and Bs.
These students are being prepared for the future; prepared to become
productive citizens.
D. Pat’s innovation goes beyond free tutoring for class work and includes incentives to special events once good grades are obtained. Students can go on field trips only after attending tutoring and providing a report on a special topic. She also initiated the trip to the capitol and exposing the inner city youth to new experience – showing them there is another world out there. Pat is making a difference for our future.