Why choose Zeta Phi Beta?

Membership in Zeta Phi Beta Sorority is a living and learning experience for women with shared values and objectives. You will have the opportunity to be involved in a wide range of activities where you can use your unique talents and knowledge to contribute to the chapter and your community.

What is special about Zeta Phi Beta?

Zeta Phi Beta is the first and only NPHC organization to be constitutionally bound to a fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated. Zeta Phi Beta is the first sorority in the National Pan-Hellenic Council to organize an auxiliary group.

Why should you join Zeta Phi Beta?

The benefits of membership include opportunities for professional development, personal development, and sisterhood. Our members are active in their respective communities and hold dear the ideals of Service, Scholarship, Sisterhood and Finer Womanhood.

What are the stereotypes of Zeta Phi Beta sorority?

Along with being seen as compassionate and smart women, the members of Zeta Phi Beta were stereotyped and characterized most often as being portly, unattractive, homely, and dark-skinned women.

What are the goals of Zeta Phi Beta sorority?

Zeta Phi Beta's purpose is to foster ideals of service, charity, scholarship, civic and cultural endeavors, sisterhood, and Finer Womanhood.

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What makes Zeta Phi Beta different from other sororities?

Often imitated but never duplicated, Zetas have been Finer since 1920, when Finer Womanhood became a sorority hallmark. Unique to our sisterhood, Finer Womanhood celebrates the standards, morals, customs, and attributes all women strive to possess.

What does Zeta Phi Beta focus on?

Zeta chapters and auxiliaries have given untotaled hours of voluntary service to educate the public, assist youth, provide scholarships, support organized charities, and promote social and civic change legislation.

What celebrity is a Zeta Phi Beta?

Along with gracing many stages with her infamous comedy; Soror Sheryl Underwood also serves as Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated's 23rd International Grand Basileus.

What does it mean to be a finer woman zeta phi beta?

Finer Womanhood is defined as, “distinguishing characteristics of a woman, one superior in kind, quality, or appearance; marked by or affecting elegance or refinement.” A Finer Woman is someone who epitomizes the true ideals of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.

Can you join Zeta Phi Beta without going to college?

Although membership in Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, is by invitation only, we encourage interested women with a track record of community service and currently pursuing a baccalaureate degree or in possession of a baccalaureate degree to contact a chapter in your local area for more information.

What is the five point plan Zeta Phi Beta?

The “Five Point” plan included services for Haitian refugees in a project directed by Laura Saunders; training for minorities so they could qualify for public, private, and political jobs; voter registration; social action, dealing with the news media; and youth career education and development.

Is Zeta Phi Beta part of the divine nine?

Zeta Phi Beta is part of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), also known as the Divine Nine (D9), which encompasses the nine historically black fraternities and sororities.

What color does Zeta Phi Beta wear?

Zeta Phi Beta's colors are Royal Blue and White. Their flower is the White Rose and their symbol is the White Dove.

Who is the brother fraternity to Zeta Phi Beta?

Zeta Phi Beta is the first and only constitutionally bound sorority to our lovely brothers of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated sought the ideals of our founders to reach college women in all parts of the country who follow the guiding principles of our organization.

What animal represents Zeta Phi Beta?

Zeta Days is an initiative by the Service and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated (Our symbol is the dove).

Is Zeta Beta Zeta a real sorority?

Zeta Beta Zeta Chapter was chartered in the year 1958, becoming the second graduate chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.

Is Zeta a big sorority?

ZTA has 225 chartered collegiate chapters in the US and Canada making ZTA an International Fraternity. We are the Third Largest National Women's Fraternity. Zeta Tau Alpha was the first women's organization to have a chartered National Housing Corporation whose assets total over $15 million.

What is the highest law in Zeta Phi Beta?

What is the Zeta Phi Beta prayer?

National Prayer

We ask Thee to be our shield of protection and to make our lives such that they may be examples for others to follow. Help us at all times to be kind and honest, and to do those things which are pleasing in Thy sight. All of these things we ask in Thy name. Amen.

What are the 4 top black sororities?

There are four major sororities, all of which were established in early twentieth century, including Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (Howard University, 1908), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (Howard University, 1913), Zeta Phi Beta Sorority (Howard University, 1920), and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority (Butler University, 1922).

What is a Zeta Phi Beta legacy?

A “Legacy” is a daughter (adopted, natural or stepdaughter), granddaughter, or legal ward of a soror. The definition applies only to the Membership Intake Process at the undergraduate level. A Legacy must meet all of the same required criteria for membership intake as a nonlegacy; however, she is not subject to a vote.

What are the accomplishments of Zeta Phi Beta?

It was the first National Pan-Hellenic Council organization to centralize its operations in a national headquarters, first to charter a chapter in Africa, first to form auxiliary groups, and first to be constitutionally bound to a fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.