![]() If we’re just doing work from a programmatic front, that’s just putting a Band-Aid on, it’s an immediate fix… That’s the work the foundation is looking to do. “we have to be intentional about the ways in which we’re combating these issues, really from a systemic level. “If we don’t address (these issues), they will continue to persist, and at some point we have to be intentional about our work,” Lewis said. aims to help Rochester and its communities by addressing three key areas: poverty, education, and health, all of it “underscored racial equity.”īut it doesn’t just stop with that program, which Lewis called a success, receiving “lots of positive feedback.” Lewis says the pandemic has kicked their programs into high gear, and the Theta Omega Sigma chapter aims to make lasting changes, that go as long as their roots are deep. The board members of Yellow Tea Rose Foundation Inc. Lewis says that this means grants, their graduating high school scholarships, are easier to achieve, while adding that donations to the organization are now tax deductible. Just this year, they launched the Yellow Tea Rose Foundation Inc., which is named for the official flower of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, and is a 501c3. Today, the Theta Omega Sigma chapter - founded in 1999 and now with 20 members - continues their legacy. “They set the standard for what it meant to be in a Black Greek letter organization. “These women were trailblazers who were teaching in a city and a school system that was predominately segregated, predominately white,” she said. When it was founded, the sorority comprised of seven Black teachers, during what Lewis calls a “time of upheaval” in the 1920s. Lewis says that Sigma Gamma Rho is one of the original “Divine Nine,” a group of centuries-old Black sororities and fraternities. “Sigma Gamma Rho incorporated was established November 12, 1922, on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis,” said Jessica Lewis, with the local chapter of Gamma Sigma Rho, and President of Yellow Tea Rose Foundation Inc. the new charitable arm of the Theta Omega Sigma chapter of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority - has roots that go deep. (WROC) - The flower that shares their name, Yellow Tea Rose Foundation Inc. ![]()
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