Right. We have mandated programs from our national board. If raising awareness of cervical cancer is not among them, we would not have the time to do such a project. For example, our health initiative right now is obesity. So that is on what our chapters are focusing.

Then sponsor a speaker on obesity - while NPC groups have a primary philanthrophy, they are also encouraged to do local projects. And they also are encouraged to support other GLO's philanthropic projects.
So kill two birds with one stone - meet the goals of your NGLO, and provide an opportunity for Greeks to work together. (Not to mention that sponsoring a speaker would not require much in the way of group effort - if, for whatever reason, the NPHC group is not a campus group, having the NPC co-sponsor it would enable campus facilities to be used.)
Like I said earlier, women's issues are women's issues - they concern all of us.

So they are campus organizations on multiple campuses? Using St. Louis as an example, they'd be a campus organization at Harris Stowe, SLU, and Wash U, instead of being a city-wide St. Louis chapter. I think I follow. Then the last SLU XYZ graduates and *poof* no more XYZ at SLU so they're removed from the roster. Then as non-campus organizations they can't advertise, etc. Holy Death Spiral Batman!

On one hand I can see the school's point, how is this a campus organization if there are no students involved in it? On the other hand I see how the chapter is getting shafted by the policy. And it's almost certainly not a scenario the institution or the student government envisioned when they set the policies in the first place. (And those tend to be focused on liability issues more than anything else).

Thanks for the info. Just when I think I'm getting to know this Greek business, I learn more

Soror... we're ::here::

Don't generalize. AST has both a national philanthropy and a national service project, and my chapter is affiliated with four local places that we volunteer at too. Just because we don't nationally mandate it doesn't mean we don't volunteer. We just don't have to be told exactly what to volunteer at by Nationals.

And neither do we. :cool:

It's still a matter of 5 members working on 5 programs rather than 50 working on five...

I was respondind to a common them in this thread that the NPC has asked NPHC to partner with them on a parricular topic. The example given was cervical cancer. I was merely explaining a most likely reason why there was not participation.

Plus I don't see NPHCers complaining about being able to get NPCers to work with them--just the opposite. So my point is to the NPCers understand our structure amd our programming (just visit our websites) and then ask to partner on a topic that is within our national thrusts.

No one is saying you don't volunteer. And we are not told exactly either. We are given a focus and each chapter can implement the best way they see fit.

See the NPHC seems to think that having 600-800 chapters--collegiate and alumnae, national and international all working on the same thrust would have a greater national impact in our communities. Silly us.

Why can't you join us in something that we do? Do we have to put in 90% of the effort? Because that's what it sounds like you're saying.

I think the problem is that national websites really don't give NPC greeks a grasp of NPHC structure. It doesn't really get lines of communication open either.

Perhaps I'm too idealistic, but I'd love to see XYZ invite ABC to their event. ABC cannot attend, but replies and suggests another possible event. Crazy huh? I wish that sort of invitation had been offered to our chapter when Sigma Gamma Rho had an event at Harris Stowe. And I do wish that our campus had worked more to get the NPHC groups some sort of campus status so the invitations could have worked the other way too.