Des Moines Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Donates to Genesis Youth Foundation Des Moines Alumnae Chapter Participates Supports International Awareness and Involvement DES MOINES, IA — On Thursday, April 15 the Des Moines Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated donated funds to the Genesis Youth Foundation. Donations collected by sorority members will support over 100 youth participants of the Genesis Youth Foundation’s programming. Last winter, the Des Moines Alumnae Chapter held an internal fundraiser to support the foundation’s youth. Sorority members of the chapter provided contributions via PayPal and checks from November 20 through December 5, 2020. In the second year of partnering with Genesis Youth Foundation, the Des Moines Alumnae Chapter’s President Robin Jenkins along with several members virtually presented the foundation’s team with a check for five hundred dollars. Samuel and Tricia Gabriel, co-founders of the Genesis Youth Foundation, along with some of the foundation’s youth participants expressed delight and appreciation for the donation. “Genesis Youth Foundation is the perfect collaborative partnership as their purpose aligns well to not only the sorority’s International Awareness and Involvement programmatic thrust but incorporates many other components of our service initiatives around, education, health and individual wholeness and wellbeing,” says Robin Jenkins, President of the Des Moines Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. The partnership with Genesis Youth Foundation supports the International Awareness and Involvement component of the Sorority’s Five Point Thrust. The Genesis Youth Foundation “provides the services for children to help level the playing field while empowering them and their immigrant families through athletic play, education, dance, and song. We embrace the many languages of our community while building solid grounds where their play will become the work that changes the world” says Sam Gabriel, Co-Founder and
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