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Originally Posted by gypsyboots
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Originally Posted by gypsyboots 
. . .I'd just like to get some involvement from D9 sororities with the NPC cervical cancer awareness program. But no luck. 
 None of us are representatives for the D9 sororities that you're trying to work with. Go to them, as adults should know how to do, and figure it all out. If it doesn't work, oh well.
Good luck with your program. (end quote)
I'm sure there are no representatives from the specific NPC groups noted earlier as only asking for your participation with step related events. I just wanted to let you know that there are NPC groups who try to involve historically black sororities in events other than "stepping" - in this case, something which affects all women - and minority women are more likely to die from it, probably because of lack of awareness and/or proper preventative health care. I think that especially in areas that concern all women, regardless of color, we should try and work together. My admittedly very narrow experience is that there is not much of that going on - and my personal efforts to reach out have been rebuffed. No biggie - as you say, oh well - but I did want to present an alternative option to the idea that striving for greek unity has to invovle stepping at all.
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A huge difference that is not being expressed here is that NPHC groups tend to have a multi-pronged platform (such as DST's Five Point Programmatic Thrust or the 10 nationally mandated programs that are part of Omega Psi Phi's mission) whereas many of the NPC/IFC organizations that I have encountered have ONE (or two) philanthropy through which most of their service is focused. When you look at 5 members working on at least 5 programs versus 50 members working on one, well....you do the math.
