In “Bettering the Human Condition,” over the years, the National Educational Foundation has sponsored many Community Outreach Service social and healthcare programs, thereby raising the awareness of young people and minority communities, (including Asian-American, Native-American, Hispanic, African-American communities, and others who are interested.) The NEF has planned and presented careers, politics and self-development educational workshops and community cultural programs for students and members of the public.

One such highly visible, well-known, much needed, and very effective project has been the education and information program for minority communities regarding the Human Genome Project, through Human Genome Project conferences and workshops in urban and suburban communities across the country and abroad.

The National Educational Foundation has been a leader in disseminating information about the Human Genome Project in New Orleans April 1999, Philadelphia July 2000, Atlanta July 2001, Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus, August 2001, Washington, D.C. October 2001 and in August of 2003, in Chicago, as well as many other smaller communities throughout the country.

The Foundation now extends that leadership to facilitate community involvement in a new cancer genetics initiative with the Mid-Atlantic Cancer Genetics Network, Johns Hopkins University as well as a pending partnership with Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Black Women’s Perspective on Genetic Research.

The Foundation has plans for establishing programs in the rural areas of America and into the churches throughout the country. These programs have been implemented with the assistance of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority members, in eight regions, numbering over 100,000 women, and with the assistance of local communities.

Grant funding has been received from the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, Consumer Health Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, Cancer Genetics Network at Johns Hopkins University, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Benedict College, March of Dimes. Other funding sources are from Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Human Genome Center at Howard University, College of Medicine and Shiloh Baptist Church, Washington, D.C. and individuals.

The Foundation serves as an education vehicle to raise the levels of health awareness and advance the interests of minorities through informational conferences.