C.O.B. ideas...
 

Does anyone have any creative ideas for C.O.B.s and Meet-N-Greets? Most of our recruiting is done through these methods and I'd like to know what we can do to make it more interesting. Thanks!:D

Our chapter was solely a COB chapter for years. One painful year, when Quota was only 9 we got 2! I was COB chair and luckily I was able to recruit us 11 wonderful women after Rush. Every chapter at our school is dependant upon COBs, since Formal Recruitment never has many women go through, quota would be between 10 and 20, but total is 100.

What worked for our chapter in our school (a HUGE school with a small Greek population) was ideas that didnt involve straying too far from campus.

There was one place off campus that was popular- it was a pizza/bar/resturant that we could rent out the top floor for COBs. We'd invite the PMNs to our house, then walk the two blocks to the resturant. We'd order pizza and soda and it would literally be a party with the PNMs. Of course it was free, and we got women who just wanted the free food (we'd advertise it in the newpaper the week before) and turned out to love the sisters.

Another fun idea was to have Sex and the City night at our house-- we'd get non-alcoholic wine or martinis, and cheese, and watch DVDs of the show. But we wouldn't put in the show right away-- we'd wait until everyone talked for a while and relaxed. Most people were so interested in talking that most didnt watch the show, but it gave it a cool theme that interested PMNs.

other ideas: having a dessert party at an Italian resturant, making ice cream sundaes or taking them out to ice cream, and we once took them out to ice skating.

our budget was always tight, but I got a good percentage of it, and sometimes charged sisters, but often we'd spend thousands on Formal rush to get relatively few women, and then spend $50 on ice cream to get a lot :)

We just finished COBs here, and it went really well. We had 2 parties. The first was a slumber party theme, where we all wore pajamas and we had nail polish and stuff out to do people's nails, a fun video playing, snacks, stuff like that. It was really chill. The second party was more structured, and it was a philanthropy/recruitment event. We baked and decorated cookies then wrapped them up with cards to give to a soup kitchen in the area. It was fun, sisters were divided up into different "stations": some baked, others decorated, others wrapped cookies, then PNMs went around to the different stations.
Good luck! :D

For events where the PNMs are dressing up, are they mainly girls that know girls in the house beforehand? Isn't it weird to ask girls that you're not super familiar with to dress in Pjs or whatnot?

Pssst, check the date of the post. It's from 2004!

ITB, Sharon