Zeta Community Center
In 1996, members of the sorority's Beta Tau Zeta chapter, got together to develop a plan to purchase a vacant building on Northwest 54th Street that formerly known housed COPE Center North, a public school for pregnant students. Letters outlining the fundraising campaign went out to other sorority members and 100 women responded with donations ranging from $100 to $5,000.
The campaign, called "Buy a Brick, " raised $75,000.
Two years later, the Zeta Community Center became a reality. The sorority bought a condemned building at 1743 NW 54th Street with the money raised in the campaign. After two banks denied the group's application for less than $20,000 to renovate the property, Rosetta Vickers, Doris Harden and Vera Thompson, agreed to finance the repairs themselves. The group paid off the loan within two years.