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.

For more information on Beta Tau Zeta ROYAL Association, Inc, please visit http://www.zetaroyal.org