The brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Epsilon Theta Lambda chapter have won the fraternity's top alumni award for the second year in a row. The award was presented at the US based fraternity's 89th General Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana recently.

This year is also the third year in a row Epsilon Theta Lambda has won the Eastern Alumni Region chapter of the year award.

It conducts projects at Westgate Correctional and the Co-Ed facility where its members talk to prisoners about making "better choices" and open discussions, in hopes of lessening the degree of recidivism.

Among young people, Alpha Phi Alpha in Bermuda has partnered with Big Brothers/Big Sisters in its "Alphas, Bigs and Children (ABC)" programme and organises Project Alpha at Berkeley Institute and Dellwood Middle School, which focuses on preventing untimely pregnancies through discussions with teenage boys. Math Attack, a programme designed to tutor young men and encourage them to pursue higher learning.

The highlight of the Bermuda Alpha's calendar year is the Alpha Beautillion, which takes one youth from each school and prepares them for a rite of passage through six months of mentoring and service projects before one of them is chosen as the Alpha Beau – on the basis of academic, talent and oratorical abilities.

All participants receive a $1,000 bursary and the winner gets a $5000 award. The programmes rely on generous corporate sponsorship, which in 2009 comes from Belco and Cablevision.