Our parents club is SUCH a help. If you contact the VPAR (Vice Prez of Alumnae Relations) for the chapter, her officer notebook from NHQ has info on starting a parents club.
We have a moms weekend and a dads weekend (same weekend as the uni does theres) and the parents club holds fund raisers (like a basket auction or poker) and uses the funds to buy us things we need (like a vacuum).
If you have any questions, PM me. I'm VPAR of my chapter, and have worked with our Parents Club a lot (both as VPAR and house manager).
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