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Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc.

Chivalry Above Self

Our motto is not decoration. It is why a group of working professionals gives its own time every fall to raise the money, read the essays and put an award in a student's hands.

En la unión está la fuerza

Three brothers in fraternity jackets on a staircase, the centre one holding a large wooden crest.

Since 1975

51 years of Lambda Theta Phi

Founded December 1, 1975 at Kean University, Union, New Jersey.

  • The first Latin fraternity in the country.

  • The longest continuously active Latino Greek letter organization.

  • What our founders started in 1975 grew into a movement of more than 30 organizations.

A large group of brothers on stage at a Lambda Theta Phi Foundation banquet, one holding an award plaque.

Atlanta, Georgia

Lambda Mu Alumni Chapter

The Lambda Mu Alumni Chapter is made up of brothers who finished school, built careers in metro Atlanta, and decided to send the ladder back down.

Nuestro Legado means our legacy. The chapter raises the money, reads the essays and hands the award over in person, every year.

A large group of brothers in white shirts holding the Lambda Theta Phi flag in a hotel ballroom.

Merit Based Awards

Every dollar reaches a student

One hundred percent of what you give is awarded. Nothing is held back for administration or overhead.

Judged on merit

Essays reach the committee with no name and no school attached, so awards are decided on merit alone.

In person recognition & award

Students are awarded at our Founders Day celebration in the metro Atlanta area, with their family and friends in attendance.

Around twenty brothers gathered on a playing field at sunset, throwing the fraternity's hand sign.

Nobody fails out. They get dropped.

Picture a student who is passing every class and working thirty hours a week to pay for them. One semester the bill comes up short by a few hundred dollars. The school cancels the registration. That is it. No failing grade, no bad semester, just a student who is suddenly not a student anymore.

This happens to our people constantly. First in the family to fill out the application. First to sit through orientation with nobody to call about it. Carrying parents who came here for a better life and who measure every semester by whether it was worth what it cost them.

Georgia State studied exactly these students. The ones dropped over an unpaid balance graduated at 32 percent. The ones whose balance somebody quietly covered graduated at 87 percent. The average amount was nine hundred dollars.

Nine hundred dollars. That is the entire distance between a family's first degree and a story about the year school did not work out.

We know them because we were them. Lambda Theta Phi has been the first Latin fraternity in this country since 1975, and the work has never changed: make sure the first one in the family is not the last. Six years of Nuestro Legado. Nine universities across Georgia and Tennessee. Every dollar aimed at the exact moment a semester almost ends early.

September 19th. Atlanta. 10:30 in the morning.

This is not a run for awareness. This is a run for the kid who is one bill away from being done.

Show up and run. We will handle the rest.

Chivalry Above Self. Nuestro Legado.

Six years in

Building a foundation

6
Years running
15
Scholarships awarded
$15,000
Dollars awarded
9
Partner campuses

Year seven's goal

$4,000

four full scholarships of $1,000 each

Nine brothers in suits seated around a banquet table at a formal dinner.

Two ways in

Help fund an award and come run with us on the morning that pays for one.

DonateJoin the run

Questions, or want to volunteer? atlantalambdas1975@gmail.com