Havana Community Development Corporation"Treasuring Our Community"

It all began 96 years ago!!

A vision lit the path for our 20 illustrious founders. This vison has continued to flourish for over 94 years and is growing storonger everyday.

On January 15th, 1908 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. was founded in Miner Hall on the campus of Howard University. Five years later on January 29, 1913 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was incorporated to perpetuate the lifelong rituals and traditions of the sisterhood. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated was the first Greek letter organization founded by and for black women. Over the past nine decades, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated has flourished into an international organization with over 800 chapters. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated is the epitome of class, grace, and womanhood.

...and Gamma Theta Continues the Legacy

It was on a Saturday, February 15, 1947, on the campus of Hampton Institute, when Soror Edna Over Campbell, Supreme Basileus officiated at the chartering ceremony of the Gamma Theta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. The chapter consisted of eleven new Sorors and one transfer. Their names were: Jacquelin Brandon, Gwendolyn Bridge, Ernestine Faucette, Mercedes Hardwick, Mozelle Jenkins, Alberta Mangana, Julia Moore, Rosemary Morris, Margaret Rogers, Barbara Southall, Mabelle Warren, and Ruby Dowles.

Ever since its inception, Gamma Theta has been diligently involved with service projects some of which include---the annual freshman rap session/campus orientation, senior citizen and Veterans Administration Hospital visitations, financial aid seminars for high school students, tutorial programs, voter awareness drives, Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets, adopt a child, UNCF, Adopt-a-Highway, several joint activities with the Gamma Upsilon Omega Chapter, and Red Cross Blood Drives.

The path of leadership was started at Hampton University, but it continues as Sorors of Gamma Theta have excelled in such areas as medicine, politics, education, business, religion and law.

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The Havana Community Development Corporation, Inc. (est. 2009) is a 501(c)(3) Florida not-for-profit public charity and community development corporation (HCDC). HCDC is comprised of graduates of Northside High graduates and other residents and philanthropists who believes in the preservation of the once beloved abandoned the facility.

Our core mission is to enhance the quality of life of the residents of Havana and surrounding communities with emphasis on economic development, jobs creation, health and wellness, youth, and senior citizens initiatives, nutrition, life-long learning and sound environmental stewardship.

Northside High was placed on the National Historic Registry 2017 as the city's first African-American high school. Funding for operations and services to date has been acquired through private planned giving (e.g., wills and trusts), charitable foundations, grants, corporations, state, local and federal governmental entities, along with various fees for services and activities from an array of public-private, faith-based strategic partners and mostly Friends of Northside High School!

OUR VISION

1. Restoring every square feet of Havana Northside to a useful recreational, business, or community service center
2. Establish a region/statewide recreational and tournament hosting center
3. Establish entertainment and destination facility to positively impact economic growth of the area.
4. Provide a HNHS Studio recording center to support development of local talent
5. Theatre performance arts education program for youth and adults
6. Provide housing education to small businesses
7. Partner with training and education center for better housing, and ready IT employees