National Programs
Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. takes pride in its continued effort to facilitate and participate in various community service ventures and initiatives throughout various communities, especially the disenfranchised.
- The National Iota Foundation
- 501(c)3 non-profit organization utilized to obtain funding for charitable causes and philanthropic programming.
- The I.O.T.A. Youth Alliance
- A national umbrella program through which individual chapters of Iota Phi Theta address the needs of Black Youth in their communities.
- The Digital Heritage Initiative
- African-American History Education Initiative.
- The Afya (aah-fee-yah) Njema (j-ma) Program
- which means “Good Health” in Swahili, is a concept which allows the fraternity to deal with a number of “health-related” issues faced by African-Americans and persons of African descent. Physical/Mental/Spiritual Health program.
- The Developing Better Fatherhood Project
- Initiative to combat the issue of the retention of fathers in the lives of their children.
- The IOTA Political Mobilization Campaign
- Political Action, Political Education, Voter Mobilization Program.
- Community Reclamation Initiative
- Program to address the breakdown of the African-American community. The concept of “community” has always been important for African-Americans. From the time of slavery to the Civil Rights Movement, the idea that the community would sustain itself as a cohesive unit for the purpose of survival was paramount.
- Cultural Education Movement
- Initiative to promote the historical value and the contributions of the African and African-American cultures to the world at large.
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