Initiatives
Z-HOPE™
Zetas Helping Other People Excel was approved at the 2008 National Boule as the National Service Program of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
An interactive holistic multidimensional outreach program designed to enhance, cultivate and empower participants to develop health promoting lifestyle choices across the lifespan. Specific to the population groups; Women, Youth, Seniors, Men, and International Women of Color.
Z-HOPE™ will be implemented across the United States and in selected International countries. Chapters are encouraged to collaborate with existing community organizations and resources to provide optimal quality programs that provide maximum impact.
Why Z-HOPE™?
- When one reviews the “State of Black America”, it is evident that there still is much work needed to eliminate the disparities. In spite of America’s technological advances, Black America continues to experience more preventable diseases and ills.
- There is no dispute that health (physical, mental, and spiritual) impacts one’s ability to work, live, love and just exist.
- Focusing the collective Zeta service efforts ‘upstream’ on increasing awareness and prevention, will surely either decrease occurrences or lessen their impact!
- Empowering people to become active partners in improving the quality of their life is our goal! Information and knowledge in an understandable manner is POWER.
- Z-HOPE’s™ uniqueness is that Zetas will take the programs/activities to the community-to existing groups rather than rely on people to come to us!
- Z-HOPE™ promises to provide culturally appropriate activities in the communities we live to empower and promote HOPE (Helping Other People Excel)
For more information please contact the National Z-HOPE™ Director – Nickki L. Weyant at NationalZHOPEDirector@gmail.com
What is Stork’s Nest?
A cooperative project of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. and the March of Dimes Foundation, for more than forty years, Stork’s Nest aims to increase the number of women receiving early and regular prenatal care in an effort to prevent cases of low birth-weight, premature births and infant deaths. The first Stork’s Nest was launched in 1971 by Epsilon Zeta chapter of Atlanta, Georgia. It was one of many educational and service projects of Better Infant Births (BIB), a highly successful program sponsored by the Fulton-Dekalb-Clayton Chapter of the March of Dimes. The program was so successful that Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. adopted Stork’s Nest in 1972 as its national project. The first Nest to open after it was adopted as Zeta’s national project was by Lambda Zeta chapter in Houston, Texas. Stork’s Nest is a jointly owned trademark of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. and March of Dimes Foundation and can only be implemented by these two organizations.
The program is designed to promote prenatal care participation and encourage healthy behaviors during pregnancy through two components-incentives and education. Stork’s Nest clients “earn” points toward incentives such as maternity or baby care items though a variety of positive, health-promoting activities: attending prenatal visits, participating in prenatal education classes, stopping at-risk behaviors such as smoking cigarettes and consuming alcoholic beverages, reducing stress, etc.
There are more than 80 Nests throughout the country. To donate gently used items to the Stork’s Nest near you, use our Stork’s Nest Locator Map below.
To inquire about implementing a Nest in your community or providing monetary donations, contact our national headquarters or email storksnest@zetaphibetasororityhq.org.
