Almost since the beginning, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., has maintained a three-pronged action plan to carry out the Fraternity's motto, "Culture for Service and Service for Humanity."
The components of our National Programs are:
Bigger & Better Business
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 business and services. 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.
Education
A National Program since 1945, the Education Program 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.
Social Action
In 1934, a well-defined program of Social Action was formulated and put into action. Bro. Elmo M. Anderson formulated this program calling for the reconstruction of social order. It was a success. It fit in with the social thinking of the American public in those New Deal years. During the 20th anniversary of Sigma, the Committee on Public Policy urged that the fraternity come forth with a broadly-based program that would be addressed to the problems of the great masses of the Negro people. Bro. Elmo Anderson, James W. Johnson, Emmett May and Bob Jiggets presented this Social Action proposition at the Conclave in Washington, DC, and gave birth to Social Action as a National Program.
