The power of a ‘purpose driven fraternity’ is that it enables its membership to constantly seek ways to address those issues that concern members immediately and also address matters that are important to the local and global communities.
The mission of Iota Phi Theta as an organization is to provide the resources -- leadership, member participation, and individual or group activity that support and enhance overall fraternal purposes.
Iota Phi Theta has been a purpose driven fraternity from the start.
The purposes were essentially three-fold: To intelligently engage in the struggle for civil rights; to become a main force in working within the black community; and to restrain the over-aggressive types attracted to Iota Phi Theta, as well as encourage and enable the fainthearted.
Although the original purposes are still viable, the world has changed.
Therefore, Iota Phi Theta must change to suit the times.
So our mission as Iota Phi Theta, if we choose to accept it, is to focus, understand and accept the fact that the fraternity is indeed a “purpose driven entity.”
The focus should be on what are we to do as a fraternity and how we are to do it.
Iota Phi Theta must take the responsibility to ensure that, as an organization, we encompass the length and breadth of interests expressed by brothers face-to-face and in social media.
It isn't a brother’ job to create the purposes of the fraternity, but to discover them.
Brothers must focus on the nature of Iota Phi Theta.
Nonetheless, we must realize that a purpose driven Iota Phi Theta, in the final analysis, is ultimately a unified and rewarding fraternity.
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