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Walk for Healthy Living National Impact Day, 2024
For this year’s Walk for Healthy Living National Impact Day, the Richmond (VA) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, partnered – again – with the Djimon Honsou Foundation, the City of Richmond, and the Black History Museum of Virginia, to support RUN RICHMOND 16.19, a running/walking event that celebrates unity, community, and good health. On Saturday, September 21, 2024, participants experienced 400+ years of Black history as we completed either a 6.19K walking course or a 16.19K running course along historically symbolic routes. We also manned a Voter Registration table at the event.
National Register to Vote Day
September 17, 2024 was National Register to Vote Day. Members of the Richmond (VA) Chapter of the Links, Incorporated volunteered, at Franklin Military Academy to educate and register high school seniors to vote. Working with the students was a wonderful and rewarding experience.
Scholarship Winners, 2024
The Richmond (VA) Chapter of the Links Incorporated is proud to honor our Link Sister, Dr. Jill Bussey Harris.
On November 1, Dr. Jill Bussey Harris was recognized by Carreras Jewelers as the Carreras Cares Honoree for the commitment to the Richmond (VA) Chapter, The Links, Incorporated and the Richmond Community.
Jill is a cosmetic dentist who has been in private practice for over 30 years. She was inducted into the Louisville Chapter of The Links, Incorporated in 1986 and transferred to the Richmond Chapter in 1989. In addition to providing superior dental care to the patients in her practice, Jill has been a loyal, active and committed member of our Chapter.
She has served our chapter in many ways.
Including:
- 1998 Fundraising Chair “Links Day at the Races” at Colonial Downs
- 2000 Fundraising Chair held at Theater IV benefitting VUU
- 2011 and 2013 Fundraising Chair “Art in the Atrium” at VMFA
- 2008 55th Anniversary Celebration – Chair Emerald Ball
Richmond (VA) Chapter at the Black History Museum
Members of the Richmond (VA) Chapter attended a reception at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia where The Richmond Links were recognized for a contribution made to sponsor the Multimedia Resource Room on the museum’s second floor. This room features an interactive kiosk that helps capture the ever-decreasing attention spans of younger generations by using technology to share information about past generations of African Americans in Virginia. The Links, Incorporated, Richmond (VA) Chapter Multimedia Resource Room highlights innovative learning technology that focuses on engagement over lecturing and values creativity and innovation.
