Who is Zeta?

Zeta Phi Beta (ΖΦΒ) is an international, historically black Greek-lettered sorority founded on January 16, 1920 by five collegiate women at Howard University. Zeta Phi Beta was founded on the simple belief that sorority elitism and socializing should not overshadow the real mission for progressive organizations – to address societal mores, ills, prejudices, poverty, and health concerns of the day.

Zeta Phi Beta is the only National Pan-Hellenic Council (“NPHC”) sorority that is constitutionally bound to a fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma. The sorority maintains affiliations with several organizations including the NPHC, American Diabetes Association, March of Dimes, American Cancer Society, American Red Cross, National Council of Negro Women, and the United Negro College Fund.

Zeta Principles

Scholarship, Service, Sisterly Love, and Finer Womanhood.

Our Zeta Journey

Omega Iota Zeta was charted on March 16, 2012, by six trailblazing sorors. On Founder’s Day, 2012, while sitting in a local Kansas City area restaurant, six sorors came together to fellowship and talk about their love for Zeta.

Out of the resilience, drive, and determination of these six women, the Omega Iota Zeta chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was born. Omega Iota Zeta, OIZ, represents a new face and ideology of what a Zeta woman is. This chapter will continue to realize the vision set by our Five Pearls that faithful day, January 16, 1920.

Omega Iota Zeta is poised to engage in a grassroots campaign to invite sorors interested in embracing change with courageous leadership and desires to extend the objectives of Zeta. Guided by passion, purpose and our founding principles, the chapter’s primary focus is to serve the community and strengthen the bond of sisterhood.

Our Mission is to…

enhance the quality of life for the residents in the Kansas City, Missouri and its surrounding areas. We will endeavor to promote and implement the programmatic thrust of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., which include service, charity, civil and cultural endeavors while promoting the ideals of Scholarship, Service, Sisterhood, and Finer Womanhood while ultimately increasing the visibility of Zeta in the Kansas City Metropolitan area. We will ensure that our conduct is a true representation of the Christian character and that of class and dignity of our beloved sisterhood. QIZ mission