OUR PROGRAMS
Creating Opportunities for All
We run numerous local, regional, and national fundraising programs focused on providing equitable access to quality educational, social, and economic opportunities in order to improve the lives of underserved members of the community.
Local Programs
The Our Cause Education and Scholarship Foundation is a separately incorporated 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization serving as a charitable arm of the Theta Tau Sigma alumni chapter of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. The foundation’s focus is providing resources and support to the chapter’s education, training, and development programs, as well as charitable initiatives such as providing academic scholarships to high school students based on financial need, academic performance, personal character, and community service.
Scholarships
The Our Cause Education and Scholarship Foundation has supported the March of Dimes March for Babies through volunteer help and monetary donations. This extraordinary volunteer-led event has the power to bring together friends, neighbors, and families who share our commitment to helping every mother and every baby for generations to come.
March of Dimes
March for Babies
The Relay for Life movement is the American Cancer Society’s signature fundraiser dedicated to helping communities fight cancer. We all want to remember those we have lost and help those affected today. The brothers of the Theta Tau Sigma chapter in northern Virginia, in conjunction with the Our Cause Education and Scholarship Foundation, volunteer at the yearly Relay For Life event through funds donated, time given, and awareness raised—with the goal of making a difference in the fight against cancer.
American Cancer Society
Relay for Life
The Back-to-School Backpack and School Supplies Drive is an educational initiative project to help in-need grade school children in northern Virginia schools. It is the kind of project the Our Cause Education and Scholarship Foundation believes in. Each August, with the help of local chapter members and volunteers, in-need students in the northern Virginia area receive school supplies and backpacks.
Back-to-School Backpack
and School Supplies Drive
Through funds donated, time given, and awareness raised, the Our Cause Education and Scholarship Foundation volunteers at the yearly Whitman-Walker Health’s annual Walk & 5K Run to End HIV. This event helps raise funds for HIV-focused care and research.
HIV/AIDS Awareness and Walk
The Our Cause Education and Scholarship Foundation serves as a gold sponsor and provides volunteers in support of the NOVA Project GiveBack Thanksgiving Food Distribution event. This program feeds over 400 families in northern Virginia communities by providing food boxes for the Thanksgiving holiday. We support single mothers, the older adults, those who are sick and shut in, and families who are going through hard times and are not able to afford a Thanksgiving dinner.
Northern Virginia Area
Food Distribution Projects
National Programs
Sigma Wellness
- Living Healthy: Diet and Nutrition
- Living Fit: Obesity and Weight Control
- Living Responsible: Reducing Cancer Risk
- Living Risk Free: Sexual Health
- Living Balanced: Spiritual and Mental Health
Sigma Beta Club and Mentoring
The founders organized the Sigma Beta Club with the purpose of developing policies and procedures for the operation of the Sigma Beta Clubs, the youth affiliate group of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity and to ensure that the goals and objectives of the Sigma Beta Clubs are implemented in an organized and unified method. Our Sigma Beta Club members are young males between the ages of 8 and 18. The Club’s. The Sigma Beta Clubs of Phi Beta Sigma offer male youths’ unique opportunities to experience wholesome values and gain leadership skills, educational enhancement, business training and development, and social and cultural awareness at a most critical stage in their personal development. One of the primary functions of the foundation is to identify potential financial resources and obtain funding to help facilitate and promote the foundation’s programs and activities for Sigma Beta Clubs within the Theta Tau Sigma alumni chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.