The first thing I'd do is to purchase a chapter house, hire staff to help keep our programs running year-round, especially the litaracy programs.
Then I'd endow a scholarship fund - it would have many categories - up to and including Graduate School. Lots of book grants also.
I'd establish a shelter for women and teens.
I'd purchase land and establish a Delta community garden project. I'd endow a local African-American History reclamation project - to get as much oral history recorded as is possible.
(smile - I'd be broke before I run out of ideas!!)
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