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A colony is the time period before initiation into an "official" organization. A colony period usually lasts for one school year. To start a colony you need a certain number of members, something like 30? It all depends on the organization. Is there a certain fraternity or sorority that you were interested in colonizing? If you are not partial to any one group then I would suggest first organizing a group of people so you can show that you have strong numbers and then contacting different groups who aren't at your school already (or who may have been in the past) with your information. There are usually pages on each organizations website that give information or who to contact to start a colony. Usually if you have good numbers and a strong greek system, they will be more than happy to help you colonize. Remember though that just because you have backing from a fraternity or sorority doesn't mean that you have backing from IFC or Panhellenic and you NEED that to be established and recognized on campus.
I am part of a group at my school that is recolonizing a sorority that previously existed on campus. One way that we attracted members was by posting little flyers around campus stating that we were starting another sorority (since there are something like almost 20 more fraternities than sororities). We are almost 40 members strong now. Let me know if I can be of any more help.
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