Get girls excited and increase accountability?
 

Hi all,
I am the new chapter president for my local sorority. We have problems with girls feeling accountable to what they sign up to do. For example: girls sign up to be a team at a fraternity philanthropy event, but then back out or just decide they aren't going to to do it.

We front girls money for things so we don't have to collect individual checks/cash, but girls take their sweet time to pay back. They just don't feel accountable towards anything. In your chapter, how do you make your members feel accountable for what they chose to do?

I feel like it's a problem with getting girls excited to participate in everything for some reason and I just don't understand why.

Stop acting like an ATM or a credit card. If they don't pay, they don't go. It sounds harsh but if you let people walk all over you, they aren't going to respect you. You've given them permission to keep doing that. Drop the hammer and stop extending lines of credit.

If this is the only way that you can fund philanthropy events, it's time to increase your dues.

This is what jumped out at me, too.

It sucks to be strict about monetary issues, especially when you're all sisters/friends, but in any organization, it has to be done. Otherwise, people will take advantage.

Make better choices when choosing your members. 5 girls who can be depended on (like, you know, SISTERS) are way better than 20 flakes, regardless of how pretty or whatever.

If girls sign up for things and then don't go, they need to be called in front of standards. This isn't only rude, it's damaging to your sorority's campus reputation. You'll be known as the losers who don't bother to show up.