Benchmark Kappa Youth Leadership Institute 2026 Calendar

Guide Right

Your support of the Baltimore chapter‘s Guide Right program currently provides programming for over 100 youth ages 12 to 18. It enables us to offer SAT college preparatory class, tutoring, stock trading, robotics, life readiness, scholarships and a host of enrichment activities at no cost to our youth and their families. Please consider purchasing a calendar for yourself, family members and colleagues. Guide right falls under the Foundation arm of Kappa Alpha Psi 501 c3 so 30% of your purchase is tax deductible. For more Information go to: https://benchmarkkappas.org/guide-right/

History

Conceived in 1922 by Leon W. Stewart, and suggested at the twelfth Grand Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi®, Guide Right became the fraternity’s national service program. Leon Steward is the founder of the National Guide Right movement of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and Past Western Province Polemarch. Soon after the St. Louis Alumni Chapter’s beginning in 1921, Leon W. Steward and J. Jerome Peters were assigned to research possible programs that would assist in developing the youth of the Black community and to devise a “meaningful and practical approach” to the problem of Black youth underachievement.

Ultimately, Brother Steward, proposed a program of guidance to be designated as Guide Right, with the purpose of assisting high school seniors to choose and pursue useful careers. The focus of Guide Right, from its inception, was to provide scholarships to needy and talented students, and to inform young people of the professions and other career options. Guide has lead the field in mentorship mentor over 750,000 young men in its 102 years existence.