For more than seven decades, the Gamma Nu Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated has served the Garden State through scholarship, service, sisterhood and Finer Womanhood — one family, one classroom, one community at a time.
1948
Chartered in Newark, New Jersey
Atlantic Region
New Jersey State Organization
1920
Founded at Howard University
Gamma Nu Zeta was chartered in 1948 by a small circle of educators and civic leaders determined that Zeta's principles would take permanent root in New Jersey. What began around a dining-room table became the state's enduring graduate chapter — the Mother Pearl.
Generations later, the chapter still measures itself the same way: by the students it sends to college, the families it steadies, and the sorors who keep coming home.
Read the full chapter history
The Five Pearls · Founders, 1920
Four commitments, one continuous narrative. Each is a working program of the chapter — not a slogan.
Gamma Nu Zeta underwrites the education of New Jersey students through annual awards, mentorship and college-readiness programming that begins long before senior year.
$248K
awarded to Garden State scholars since 1978
From food security drives to maternal-health advocacy and voter education, the chapter's service calendar is built around the standing needs of Essex County families.
6,400+
volunteer hours contributed in the last five years
Sisterhood here is practical: mentorship across generations, sisters who show up for one another, and a chapter culture that makes reclamation feel like coming home.
3 generations
of members active in the chapter today
Finer Womanhood is the standard by which the chapter measures its programming — dignity in presentation, rigor in preparation, and generosity in practice.
Est. 1920
Zeta Phi Beta founded at Howard University
Upcoming Events
16
MAY
Blue Revue Scholarship Gala
Newark Museum of Art · Newark, NJ
6:30 PM – 11:00 PM
16
JAN
Atlantic Region Founders' Day Observance
Symphony Hall · Newark, NJ
11:00 AM
Two awards are conferred annually to New Jersey seniors whose academic record and service to community reflect the principles of Finer Womanhood. Recipients are honored at the Blue Revue Scholarship Gala.
Eligibility
Three auxiliary bodies extend Gamma Nu Zeta's reach across generations and across the community.
Gamma Nu Zeta welcomes women of scholarship and service who wish to carry the principles of Zeta Phi Beta forward in New Jersey. Every pathway begins with a conversation.
