As far as my chapter, we sponsored a golf tournament in the past that was one day, and now we do a "Shamrock-athon", in which we rock in rocking chairs at the Cracker Barrel for 24 hours, around the clock (sounds granny, but a lot of people at my uni love Cracker Barrel). We took donations from people at Cracker Barrel, and get approval from the store. The money raised goes for a two-fold purpose, to one of our national philanthropies, Prevent Child Abuse America, and our local philanthropy, JDRF. We give the money to JDRF at the annual JDRF Walk.
The Pi Kappa Phis always did a Push for America Scaffold sit on campus, where they sat outside over the weekend and flagged down passing cars for donations.
The Kappa Alphas do a toilet sit on campus. They got donations from looking silly in the Academic Quad on, you guessed it, a toilet.
The Phi Mus do a Pie-a-Professor event in the Residence Hall quad, and that usually goes pretty well.
The other houses on my campus do not do high-profile philanthropy work. I believe they simply donate to their chapter's philanthropy monetarily. I suppose it was different for us though, because we have 4 national charities and 1 local, so we were always working on something.
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