The purpose of Omega Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated
is to Serve and Educate people of diverse backgrounds through
sisterhood, leadership, and guidance.
As positive role models, we promote unity of all cultures, focus on the
empowerment of our gender and raise the standards of excellence
in our academic, social,
and personal endeavors.
Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated
envisions a world without oppression, where empowered women
celebrate the
essence of womanhood and act as resources
in the advancement of their communities.
Sorority Flower - Sunflower
Sorority Mascot - HummingBird
Sorority Colors - Black, Forest Green and Gold
Sorority Motto - 'Sirviendo y Educando a Través
de Nuestra Diversidad' Serving and Educating Throughout
our diversity”
Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was founded on March
15, 1989 at the University at Albany, State University of
New York. Seventeen dedicated women of various cultural and
ethnic backgrounds came together to create an outlet for
women to initiate change. The foundation was built to fight
against the injustices historically suffered by our gender.
As the first Latina-oriented organization in the history
of the University at Albany, they struggled to establish
our organization, our purpose and most importantly, a precedent.
In under a year, Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated
co-founded the Latino Greek Council at the University at
Albany. This council served as a support system for those
organizations that did not share the agenda or identified
themselves with the already established councils at the University
at Albany. The Latino Greek Council (LGC) has proven its
sustenance as it has served as the framework and model for
the Latino Greek Councils on a National level, ten years
later.
With an emphasis on community service and sisterhood, Omega
Phi Beta immediately became a positive influence within the
community at the University at Albany, as well as in the
city of Albany. Realizing the importance of expanding our
service we initiated membership education process and established
a second chapter, the Beta Chapter at SUNY New Paltz in the
Spring of 1991.
What brought together our prominent seventeen founders
and what attracted those initial pledge classes, still attracts
so many women today. Although our orientation is Latina,
we are open to women of all cultural backgrounds and the
diversity of our membership and interestingly the diversity
of our seventeen founders' attests to this fact. Omega Phi
Beta Sorority, Incorporated thrives on the diversity of its
members and we attribute a lot of our success to our organization's
ability to embrace each members' differences.
As Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. moves towards the future
we can look back with pride. Since 1989 we have managed to
serve and educate a multitude of communities, donated over
$10,000 to various AIDS charities, served thousands of hours
and continued to excel in academic pursuits inclusive of
recognition at various campuses as the sorority with the
highest grade point average. Along our accomplishments within
our communities we have managed to excel as a sisterhood
by providing each other with unconditional support in professional
and personal endeavors. Omega Phi Beta has been able to capture
the true essence of sisterhood and we are eagerly open to
extend our family to others.
Omega
Phi Beta was established due to the desire of identifying
with and establishing our culture as well as symbolizing
order, strength and unity. Our founders set their precedent
and today, we as a whole stand alongside them and exemplify
what our values of pride, honesty and beliefs of tradition
and custom symbolize.
Omega
Phi Beta Sorority