Awards

Awards & Accomplishments

non-profit
  • For approximately eight years, the OHBM co-sponsored the "Black History Month Creative Expression Contest" with the Delta Sorority of Albany.
  • The Albany chapter is an organization of many firsts; they were the first and only Chapter of OHBM in the nation to have a "Community Technology Center", the first community based organization in the Albany Capital District to do a regional "Voter Registration", the first to receive donated "office space” from Verizon; and a donated meeting room from Fleet Bank. Fleet arranged for the organization to have unlimited use of their Executive Board room (on a scheduled basis) for the purpose of meeting. The Albany Chapter of the One Hundred Black Men was the only community based organization in New York State selected to co-sponsor, the Annual New York State "African American Cultural Festival". (August 1997). During the festival the organization hosted “Apollo Night” talent show /contest and a youth banking and financial education workshop.
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