The Azalea City (GA) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated
RECOGNITIONS
1999
Southern Area Conference (Charlotte, NC): 2nd place award for International Trends and 3rd place award for The Arts Facet
2002
National Assembly (San Francisco, CA): 1st place Umbrella Program award and 3rd place award for Services to Youth Facet
2009
Southern Area Conference (Jacksonville, FL): Best Practices recognition for the Linking the Past to the Future: Helping Grandparents Raise Grandchildren; Umbrella Program, Services To Youth Lead Facet, Best Practice for the Mentoring Program; and 1st place award recipient of the 2009 FedEx Mentoring Award, with a $2,500 program grant for the mentoring component of the Umbrella Program
Clayton County Metropolitan Partnership in Aging Award from the Atlanta Regional Commission and the Regional award from the Metropolitan Partnership in Aging/Atlanta Regional Commission for a nonprofit organization, both in recognition of work done in partnership with the Clayton County Kinship Center & Grandparents Raising Grandchildren program
2010
37th National Assembly (Detroit, MI): Best Practice recognition in The Arts Facet and the Umbrella Program, and recognition and stipend for participation in The Arts Signature program
2011
Southern Area Conference (New Orleans, LA): 1st place award for The Arts, including a monetary award and a score of Excellent for the Chapter Display
2012
Proclamations from the United States House of Representatives and the Atlanta City Council for the Chapter's exhibit honoring Georgia's African-American legislators
2013
Southern Area Conference (Miami, FL): 2nd place to Health & Human Services and 3rd place to Services to Youth, with both Facets receiving monetary awards
2014
39th National Assembly (National Harbor, MD): Health and Human Services Facet recognized as a Best Practice
2015
Southern Area Conference (Birmingham, AL): 1st place to Health & Human Services Facet for Be the Match Organ Tissue Donor program with a monetary award
2017
Southern Area Conference (Atlanta, GA) received Certificate of Achievement and Best Practicerecognition for Covenant House of Champions (Transformational service in the area of Umbrella Programming)
2018
41st National Assembly (Indianapolis, IN): 1st place Umbrella Program award — National Trends & Services: Covenant House of Champions
Third place award — Services to Youth – Integrated Program: Linking Children to Success: Achieving Excellence (Pre-K-6th Grade)
2019
Southern Area Conference (Orlando, FL): received 2nd place award for Services to Youth Integrated Program and a $1,000 cash award
2020
National Assembly (Virtual): 2nd Place -National Trends and Services for Covenant House of Champions, and 2nd Place Services to Youth HBCU Initiative - S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Link
