Help with COB issues.

[rushchair799]

I'm the COB chair for an NPC chapter who is very far below campus total (20-30 women). We are one of the only chapters on campus that are not at total, and the rest are very close to it. Our recruitment chair and I have gone to my advisors (even on a national level) but we're still struggling, so I'm hoping somebody here can provide a little more advice/ideas as far as COB events and encouraging women to recruit goes.


First, the COB events. It seems that what works best for our chapter, as far as strategy goes, is one on one things with PNM's. However we are not recruiting enough women this way, so our advisors are very insistent that we hold big COB events. The problem is, we have no idea what to do. We've had dinners at the house on weekends, events on campus and in the dorms, but it just seems that a lot of women don't want to join our house for whatever reason. So I guess with events, I'm in search of new event ideas that isn't a movie night (we've been explicitly told no events people cannot talk during, since that's the point of the events to begin with) and isn't crafting, because a lot of women in our chapter aren't crafty and feel like they can't attend them and have fun.

Second, the motivational part of it. How can we encourage our chapter members to go out and recruit women? Most of the chapter doesn't understand that total is a national requirement (we are NPC), but we aren't allowed to explain it because it might come off as being negative or discouraging. We have a weekly recruitment requirement that is very simple to obtain, and even with that, most people aren't doing it and are choosing to be fined instead. Many also say they don't want to 'creep out' their friends, so they don't want to ask their friends if they've ever thought about greek life, or bring them over to the house, which worries me as well.

As I said previously, our chapter is in kind of a dire place when it comes to recruitment, and I really don't know what to do, so I'm hoping that you ladies will be able to provide some help! Thank you for any advice you can provide!!