Mu Delta Lambda Charitable Foundation
Academic Scholarship

The Mu Delta Lambda Charitable Foundation was created in 2007 to promote higher education, community service, health awareness, and low income housing. 

Providing educational scholarships is one of the components of the Foundation. Scholarships are awarded in cooperation with the Alpha Phi Alpha Alumni chapter in Springfield and Decatur, Illinois. 

Since it’s founding on December 4, 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has supplied voice and vision to the struggle of African-Americans and people of color around the world. Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans, was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York by seven college men who recognized the need for a strong bond of Brotherhood among African descendants in this country. The visionary founders, known as the "Jewels" of the Fraternity, are Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Woodson Tandy.

The Fraternity initially served as a study and support group for minority students who faced racial prejudice, both educationally and socially, at Cornell. The Jewels and early leaders of the Fraternity succeeded in laying a firm foundation for Alpha Phi Alpha's principles of scholarship, fellowship, good character, and the uplifting of humanity.

Alpha Phi Alpha chapters were developed at other colleges and universities, many of them historically black institutions, soon after the founding of Alpha Chapter at Cornell. While continuing to stress academic excellence among its members, Alpha also recognized the need to help correct the educational, economical, political, and social injustices faced by African Americans. Alpha Phi Alpha has long stood at the forefront of the African-American community's fight for civil rights through leaders such as: W.E.B. DuBois, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Edward Brooke, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Andrew Young, William Gray, Paul Robeson, and many others  

 

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS AND REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION

Note: Candidates who have been awarded two APA/MDLCF college scholarships are ineligible to apply.

• Must be a high school graduate accepted by an accredited College/University or must be a student currently enrolled in an accredited College/University.
• Provide proof of acceptance to an accredited college or university.
• High School transcript or College transcript.
• A 2.75 GPA is preferred but not required.
• Two Letters of Recommendation are required (One must be from an administrator or faculty member of the institution you are currently attending).
• A one-page essay discussing an event in your life that you had to overcome to become successful.
• Candidates' permanent address or college attending must be from Sangamon or Macon County in Illinois.