Identify the service organizations in a geographic focal community. Investigate ways they might be helpful in your community organizing efforts. In African-American communities, the service club niche is often filled by the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World, 79 the Prince Hall Masons, 80 and the “Divine 9” black sororities. These sororities are a unique institution, founded in the early twentieth century in historically black colleges. Like all sororities, they enable college women to make friends and form lifelong bonds but, unlike most white sororities, they have gone far beyond coordinating college social life and have supported many causes within black communities throughout the United States?