Bigger and Better Business

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. Please visit www.pbsbbb.org for more information

Social Action

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. This new departure, in large measure, grew out of the experiences of the New York group. These men from Manhattan brought with them a new idea, SOCIAL ACTION. 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. In the winter of 1934 Brother Elmo Anderson, James W. Johnson, Emmett May and Bob Jiggets came down to the Conclave in Washington, DC and presented their Social Action proposition, and just the birth of Social Action as a National Program.

Education

The program consists of a four point plan designed to increase the fraternity's emphasis on implementing programs with national/international focus and applying an infrastructure for the development of the office's initiatives, to operate directly and indirectly with various Sigma initiatives (i.e. Sigma Beta Club Foundation and Project S.E.T.), and to develop topics for the oratorical and debate competitions.
Also, the implementation of the of the goals and objectives can be further supported by the future reinstitution of the practice and application of the By-Laws established in the constitution concerning this office, particularly reinstituting both the Education and Scholarship Funds. Please visit http://www.pbseducation1914.org/ for more information.