FRATERNITY, INCORPORATED
Eastern Regional Board Meeting
Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008
Time: 9:00 am to 4:30pm (Continental breakfast 8:00am to
9:00am)
Location: Univ. of District of Columbia
4200 Conn. Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20008
Building #39 3rd Floor Boardroom
Parking is available in parking garage underneath Building #39
Directions:
By train: Train Union Station, DC. Take subway-Redline Subway system.
Stop at Van-Ness/UDC stop which puts you right at Building#39.
Car: 95 South to 495 West to Conn. Ave. South Exit. Follow to Building #39.
Ninety Four years ago the greatest idea for a Brotherhood became a reality, so on this day we pay respect to the Founders' of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. Bigger than that I must personally thank our Heavenly Father for using those three men to bring forth an organization that continues to push forward. Brothers, we may have our differences and will not always agree, but let us never forget what "Our Cause" is really about. Sigma is the sum total truly equal to one, so never think it is about you , because it is always about someone other than you.- Craig Collins, NY State Director
The National Program of Education focuses on programming and services to graduate and undergraduates in the fraternity. Programs such as scholarships, lectures, college fairs, mentoring, and tutoring enhance this program on local, regional and national levels.
Phi Beta Sigma has from its very beginning concerned itself with improving the general well-being of minority groups. In 1934, a well-defined program of Social Action was formulated and put into action. Bro. Elmo M. Anderson, then president of Epsilon Sigma Chapter (New York) formulated this program calling for the reconstruction of social order. It was a tremendous success. It fit in with the social thinking of the American public in those New Deal years.
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., believes that the improvement and economic conditions of minorities is a major fact in the improvement of the general welfare of society. It is upon this conviction that the Bigger and Better Business Program rests. Since 1926, the Bigger and Better Business Program has been sponsored on a national scale by Phi Beta Sigma as a way of supporting, fostering, and promoting minority owned businesses and services.