Eta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated is a national Business and Professional Women's Organization. It was organized in 1942, in Detroit Michigan, by eleven business women who had attended Lewis Business College: Dorothy Sylvers Brown, Ivy Burt Banks(d.), Earline Boone Carter, Mae Edwards Curry(d.), Katherine F. Douglas(d.), Merry Green Hubbard(d.), Ethel Madison(d.), Ann Gill Porter(d.), Mattie Rankin(d.), Lena Reed(d.), and Atheline Shelton Graham. The initial purposes of the Sorority were to help female high school graduates by awarding scholarships; to provide assistance to programs designed to help mentally handicapped citizens; and develop closer fellowship among business and professional women.
The first SHAD Club of Eta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, was organized in 1949 in Detroit, Michigan. The Grand Chapter of Eta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was established in Detroit, Michigan in 1954.
The National Headquarters of Eta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, is located in Detroit, Michigan. The Eta Phi Beta Sorority house is located at 19983 Livernois Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. The Sorority is organized into six Regions: Northern, Southern, Eastern, Mid-Eastern, Western, and Southeastern. There are over 103 chapters with members residing in twenty-nine states, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands.
The Sorority's National project is mentally handicapped children. The Sorority contributes to the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), NAACP, Urban League, March of Dimes, United Way Drive, YW & YMCA, Boys & Girls Scouts of America, National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), and other worthwhile civic projects.
The Hobo Scholarship Dance, Christmas Candlelight Vespers Service, Founders' Day Observance Luncheon, and the Queen Bee Contests are annual affairs sponsored by the Sorority.
The aims of the Sorority are to have enough wisdom to think in the right channels with enough perception to see an opportunity, enough judgment to apprise it, and enough energy to embrace and make use of it.
