Building a Better Tomorrow Today
Phi Beta Sigma focuses its actions to the betterment of the community and to its people.
To achieve this action, three main areas of society are targeted for success. Three national programs were created so that all Sigmas
would be able maintain the principles and the motto set forth by the founders.
Education
The start of the Education program begun with the conception of the organization.
The intent of the program is to encourage and assist students in attaining the highest scholastic achievement.
The program sponsors scholarships, endowments and several smaller programs that are design to achieve its intent.
- The Sigma Beta Club - is mentoring program that helps shape and mold young men and boys.
This is one of the more notable accomplishments of the organization.
- "A Fraternity that Reads" - is an annual project, which hopes to convey to children the importance of reading
Social Action
The most important of the three programs is the Social Action created in 1934.
In the beginning, the program was concerned with improving the general well being of minority groups.
In the past, the program focused more on civil rights and liberties such as national and state anti-lynching legislation, equality of wages and working conditions, abolition of Jim Crow laws etc.
Over the years, the program has evolved to create projects targeted toward young adults to senior citizens, national and local emergencies and medicinal needs.
- Project S.A.T.A.P. ( Sigmas Against Teenage Pregnancy) - this program is a collaborative venture with the March of Dimes Birth Defeacts Foundation
to address the alarming rise in teenage pregnancy.
- Project S.A.D.A. (Sigmas Against Domestic Abuse) - goal is to reduce the incidence of domestic abuse from a male prospective.
- Project S.W.W.A.C. (Sigmas Waging War Against Cancer) - this program is a collaborative venture with the American Cancer Society to adress the awareness and prevention
against all cancer especially towards men.
Bigger and Better Business
In 1925, the Bigger and Better Business program became a concern for the organization.
The program was design to help the promotion of small black businesses and entrepreneurship among individuals.
The program aids the businesses in competing and helps them to become a viable force in today's economic.
- Phi Beta Sigma National Credit Union - owned and operated by Sigma men.
- "Buying Black and Giving Back" - encourages its members and chapters to physically assist and financially support minority businesses in the area.
In order for the Fraternity to achieve these objectives, the Fraternity tries to strengthen and serve proactively
the Brotherhood as a supportive resource that positively influences the Fraternity's growth and financial solvency.
Checkout other Sigma websites to find out more about these and other projects.
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