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SOCIAL PHILANTHROPY
Pair up with a fraternity or a sorority for a weekend social! You can spend the day painting a mural with underprivileged children, raking leaves at a park, picking up trash for a beach clean-up, etc. Follow it up with a picnic! Assign buddies and order t-shirts! This is a great way to accumulate service hours and extend your social calendar. Also, if you pair up with a non-Greek women's club, this is a great informal way to meet PNM's and have a COR event!

Always remember whenever you hold any sort of service event, your chapter Reporter should send out a press release to the Adelphean and the school newspaper. The Alum Relations Chair should send a letter to your alum. Brag! It will gain additional exposure for your chapter.

FUNDRAISERS
The best events are ones that are well-marketed and promoted to the community. Remember that your goals for a philanthropy event are two-fold:

1) promoting awareness of RMHC Charities
2) Raising funds for RMHC Charities that will be donated to the Alpha Delta Pi Foundation and earmarked for RMHC (this way your chapter receives formal "Credit" and is eligible for special recognition from ADPi)

There should be an event committee headed by the Philantrhopy Chair. Each person on the committee should serve a purpose:
- Venue Chair (researches and books venue, and is responsible for day-of-event dealings with the venue)
- Operations Chair (is responsible for drafting event rules and making sure everything is order on the day of the event; even putting out chairs, having awards on hand, etc)
- Marketing Chair (promotes event to students, local media, radio stations, flyers, newspaper ads, banners, posters at the event, etc.)
- Community Sponsor Chair (enlists sponsorships in the community by having a formal letter, maintaining a list of sponsors to contact, followup with sponsors, getting checks to the Treasurer, setting goals for the amount of money raised through sponsorship, etc)
- Alumnae Relations Chair (invites local alumnae to come out to the event, donate money or time to the event, etc.)
- Philanthropy Chair (RMHC liasion, oversees committee and all aspects of event planning)
- Event Coaches (each group participating in your event should have co-coaches to help them fill out paperwork, train them, run them through practices, enlist chapter support from your chapter and the participant's organization, etc.)

The commitee chairs should recruit chapter members to work with them as sub-committees, and it should be mandatory that each chapter member serve on a Philanthropy sub-committee for your big event each year.

Invite someone from RMHC to your event and give them a chance to address the audience. They can provide handouts on RMHC, and signage.

Events that always go over well are the ones where you include the sororities AND fraternities, as well as nonGreek groups. Think of a co-ed Lip Sync, Greek Olympics, Athletic Event, etc., and attach a second promotion-oriented component. In addition to the "day-of" event, make part of the "points" include the group making a sign or banner, promoting the event in the community (free Publicity for you! Imagine XYZ fraternity getting a public service announcement on TV promoting your event! They get points toward winning the event and you get increased exposure). Charge a fee for entering the event. You might also charge admission for people to attend the event. (Give them a small gift for attending, like a small pin with the RMH logo). You can also hold a raffle or silent auction at the event with sponsor-donated items like a university school bookstore scholarship, RMH T-shirts, Event T-Shirts, Dinner for 2 at Red Lobster, etc.

- Event Follow-up
Make sure to donate any money through the Alpha Delta Pi Foundation. They will donate it to RMHC and you will receive ADPi philanthropy credit-- this is how we track our service hours and monies donated.

- Submit a story to the school newspaper and the Adelphean! Brag about your accomplishment and get the word out! Also send a newsletter to the alumnae-- they may want to donate more money to RMHC and you can add this to your event totals.

- Lion's Share Challenge
Remember, we now have a "signature" program-- with a logo and everything! You can do what you like within the program -- just make sure to use that logo and read the usage rules involving the logo. The idea is that pretty soon, in a few years, Greeks on campus will hear "Lion's Share Challenge" and immediately think of ADPi and RMH!

ETA: Events should always be in good taste. You are not only representing ADPi, you are also representing your university and RMHC! Keep this in mind when you brainstorm--- you want your event to be fun, but you also want people to walk away knowing what RMHC is. So skip the all-male hot bodies wet t-shirt contest, and go for something that is fun and has some semi-educational component.