A nonprofit organization founded in 2004 by Echol Chapman Sr., and Ruby M. Chapman to ensure perpetual support for the vision, dreams, love and commitment of their grandparents, Napolean & Ada Moton Chapman.
Napolean & Ada Moton Chapman believed in uplifting people and in self-help. They also had a strong will to further the education of others, especially the education of young children. Using a combination of the faith-based and the bible-based approaches to the education of children, Napolean & Ada Moton Chapman started afterschool and after church programs for children at the Lincoln Street Baptist Church in the city of Greenville, South Carolina.
Napolean Chapman was the first Black minister, pastor, reverend, or preacher to host a broadcast radio show in the South. The broadcast radio show was called, “Meeting at the’Ole Campground”. This broadcast could be heard all through the South, enlightening and uplifting people and giving them hope and skills of self-help. Napolean Chapman also assisted in founding two churches, Holy Spring Baptist Church and Shady Grove Baptist, both in South Carolina, prior to becoming the founder of Lincoln Street Baptist Church in Greenville, South Carolina.
The Napolean & Ada Moton Chapman Institute is devoted to the idea of providing a high quality of life to all people through self-help.