Ifc
 

Hey everyone. I've got a question for you. IFC at High Point has recently gotten its act together, after years of it being a worthless organization. I am currently the secretary, but I am looking to be the president next year. We are looking to make IFC a stonger organization in the years to come. Our current Greek advisor is saying that we need to come up with our own philanthropy, so my question to everyone is what does your IFC do for philanthropy/fundraising? Thanks a bunch everyone.

I am VP of Greek Development at Boston U.

Every year we do a kick off event called the day of service. We either go around the Charles River or to another area (this year it was a near-by school) and clean it up. It does not cost too much just money for drinks and lunch then the garbage bags and the gloves. We get a pretty good turnout every year. We try to get a speaker to come out and talk to everyone before it starts.

Its a good welcome back event because its not too intense so everyone can catch up with each other.

Second semester we try to back the Dance Marathon and get the Greeks excited about participating.

We have also done a penny war and all the money raised goes to charity and the chapter with the most points has it donated in their name. If you want to know more about this one email me at jschum@bu.edu

The major problem we have is that we are not funded by the school. Since we are not funded, we can not really do any fun events. We are seen just as a gov't that fines people for getting out of line. Because of this, we are not really respected and any events that we manage to pull off normally has a small turn out.

We have greek week coming up and we want to have some great events for the chapters but its hard to do with little money and even less enthusiasm from the chapters.

Philanthropy
 

Gentlemen: I just got off the phone w/a brother from Northwestern who lost his 5-year-old nephew to a rare form of leukemia last August.

In honor of his nephew he's personally going to participate in this year's Pan-Massachusetts Challenge, a bike-a-thon that crosses the entire Commonwealth of Massachusets. The ride is scheduled for later this summer.

This bike-a-thon was founded in 1980 as a way to raise money for cancer research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. All funds are donated to their "Jimmy Fund", named in honor of a 12-year-old cancer victim.

The American Cancer Society is a very worthwhile organization, as are the Alzheimer's Assn., Heart Assn., etc. For chapters in the Northeast, though, Dana-Farber's "Jimmy Fund" would make a great match. Just a thought...

ZAX,