What's Your National Philanthropy / Service Project?
 

I'm composing a list of National Philanthropic and Service Projects.

I'll start!:D

Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority
National Philanthropic Service Project: Habitat for Humanity
National Philanthropy: Pine Mountain Settlement School

Your turn!

Phi Mu
Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere)
Children's Miracle Network

Maybe this is a stupid question, but is Project HOPE still our national philanthropy? I thought that CMN became our primary national philanthropy sometime in the 1980s.

Delta Gamma
National Philanthropic Service Project: Anchor Games
National Philanthropy: Service for Sight

Alpha Phi Foundation and Women's Cardiac Health
 

Alpha Phi’s Philanthropy is the Alpha Phi Foundation: Created in 1957, the Alpha Phi Foundation was the first such foundation for a women's Greek organization and is a means to channel the commitment and vision to put the good will, hard work, and belief in Alpha Phi to work in powerful ways. Through the Foundation, Alpha Phi has reached out to increasing numbers of people, offering opportunities to learn, lead, and live healthier lives. For more information, visit www.alphaphi.org


Cardiac Care and Research: For more than 50 years, Alpha Phi has focused on cardiac care and research. More recently, we have paid particular attention to groups that study the causes and treatment of heart disease in women. Because it supports these cardiac care initiatives, the Alpha Phi Foundation helps millions of people live longer, richer lives.

The Alpha Phi Foundation is a Coalition Partner with WomenHeart, the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease. Since 1946, Alpha Phi has focused on heart disease and cardiac care as a philanthropic priority. As a women’s organization, Alpha Phi Foundation places special emphasis on women’s cardiac health. http://www.womenheart.org/

Through its annual Cardiac Care Award, the Alpha Phi Foundation helps to fund research and educational programs that support cardiac health. http://www.alphaphi.org/foundation_i...2.html#cardiac

Heart disease is the #1 killer of women in America. Go Red for Women is the movement to give women lifesaving powers to prevent this disease and have long, helathy futures. Alpha Phis across the world participate in Go Red for Women. The RED DRESS pin, the color red, and the TAKE HEART wristband are symbols for women’s heart disease. http://www.alphaphi.org/foundation_i...nt_events.html

Individual chapters participate in and host numerous philanthropy and community service events each year that benefit the Alpha Phi Foundation and local philanthropies through our Community Contribution Policy. They raise public awareness by hosting Cardiac Care Week at their campus. They volunteer their time on a variety of different events hosted in their area. Some examples can be found here - http://www.alphaphi.org/news/

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In the History of Phi Mu: The first 150 years:
"The work continues all over the world...At the new millennium Project HOPE had 55 programs operating in 28 countries."

Alpha Epsilon Phi:
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Israel

My chapter also has its own philanthropy: the General Israel Orphans' Home for Girls. When my chapter was a local sorority, this was the philanthropy that was chosen, and so my chapter continues to contribute to them to this day.

Kappa Delta's national philanthropies are:

Girl Scouts of the USA - In 1998, Kappa Delta began its national collaboration with the Girl Scouts of the USA in order to lend hearts and hands to young women everywhere. With this partnership, KD became the first and only NPC group to adopt Girl Scouts as a national philanthropy.

Prevent Child Abuse America - Known nationally as Kappa Delta's "Shamrock Event," each year, thousands of KDs in hundreds of communities nationwide join forces in a collective effort to raise money for national and local child abuse prevention efforts.


Children's Hospital - Kappa Delta continues to support Children’s Hospital through its annual gift of $25,000 from the Children in Need Fund of the Kappa Delta Foundation and from financial contributions made by chapters and alumnae associations.

Orthopaedic Research Awards - Since 1950, Kappa Delta has funded the highly coveted orthopaedic research awards through the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Starting with a $1,000 contribution in 1950, Kappa Delta has given almost one point one million dollars to the AAOS.


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Kappa Delta also has community involvement with the Association of Junior Leagues, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, and KiDs Grants. You can read more about all of our philanthropies at the site below.

*Taken from Kappa Delta's Website *

YES, Phi Mu still supports Project HOPE. Read more about them at www.projecthope.org and about Phi Mu's involvement and Phi Mu's scholarship for Project Hope internships.




National Philanthropy Day
In 1998, Phi Mu was proud to be the first NPC group to establish National Philanthropy Day during the month of October. Annually, Phi Mus gather to share their skills and energies to make the world a better place by dedicating themselves to "hands on" community service. Phi Mus everywhere can be proud of the part their Fraternity plays in continuing the proud tradition of giving, caring and sharing.

Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc.

National Philanthropy: National Conference for Community and Justice

Alpha Chi Omega:

Supporting Victims of Domesitc Violence

The Alpha Chi Omega Foundation, which includes:
*Kristen's Story (along with Tri-Delta)
*The MacDowell Colony (a haven for artists in Peterborough, NH... AXO maintains the Star Studio)
*Easter Seals
*Scholarships and programs for members, such as IMPACT Alpha Chi Omega, UIFI, etc.

Alpha Delta Pi:
Ronald McDonald House Charities


"A Home-Away-From-Home"
The idea behind Ronald McDonald House is simple: provide a “home-away-from-home” for families of seriously ill children who are receiving treatment at nearby hospitals.

Some children have to travel great distances to get the medical attention they need. In-hospital treatment may last one day, one year, or even longer. For the families of these children, accommodations can be hard to come by; options are often limited to costly hotels or unforgiving hospital chairs and benches.

The Ronald McDonald House provides a comfortable, supportive alternative for these families. It serves as a temporary residence near the medical facility where family members can sleep, eat, relax and find support from other families in similar situations. In return, families are asked to make a donation ranging from $5 to $20 per day; if that isn’t possible, their stay is free.

The March of Dimes and Zeta Phi Beta have a cooperative program called Stork's Nest. The program was launched nationally in 1972. This program has both service and educational components. The service is the establishment of a distribution site, the "Nest," where expectant mothers, referred by cooperating hospitals, clinics, and health centers, can get necessary items such as maternity clothes, layettes and furniture at minimal or no cost. The educational component consists of seven sessions covering prenatal care, nutrition, drugs, alcohol and smoking, genetics, infant care and parenting.

Stork's Nest Info

Project Reassurance
The care and protection of children is, first and foremost, a family concern. But when teenagers have babies, the consequences are throughout society. Children born to teenage parents are more likely to be of low birth weight and to suffer from inadequate health care, more likely to leave High School without graduating and more likely to be poor, thus perpetuating a cycle of unrealized potential. Originally conducted in partnership with the March of Dimes, chapters sponsor Workshops and other activities that assist pregnant teens and educate teen mothers about the importance of pre-natal and post-natal care, and to better understand infant care and child development.

Program for Africa
A program to provide African women -who produce more than 75% of the food grown on the continent- with grain grinders. Providing thousands of dollars to buy grain grinders for African women to alleviate their backbreaking work, this program is in conjunction with Africare.

OPERATION BigBookBag
A Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority International Project in Partnership with the A.E.A.O.N.M.S., Inc.

Sorority and Shrine members make available, to selected facilities across the nation, bookbags, notebooks, writing and drawing paper, pencils and pens, dictionaries, thesauri, rulers, glue, construction paper, textbooks, encyclopedia, typewriters, computers and many other needed school items. Made available also through the efforts of both memberships is a nation-wide tutoring and mentoring program designed for the benefit of the children housed at said facilities.

Sigma Youth Symposium
Sponsored in conjunction with and in commemoration of Sigma Week, the Sigma Youth Symposium focuses on some of the prevalent concerns that negatively impact our youth: drugs, teen violence, abuse, low self-esteem, suicide, teen pregnancy, etc. Held on the second Saturday of March by each Alumnae Chapter, simultaneous Sigma Youth Symposiums address issues that affect teens today.

ETA
These are our national projects in addition to local projects chapters participate in.