How to foster an environment of service from a Panhellenic exec POV

[cianaroses]

Our organizations tend to stay within the campus to fund raise money, I would like to encourage more hands-on service throughout out city in order to promote Fraternity & Sorority life in our community. We are an urban-based campus, so there are loads of opportunities I feel like we aren't taking advantage of.

Our numbers for recruitment dropped substantially last year because of a nearly inoperable Panhellenic, so my exec board has mostly been focusing on picking up the pieces left behind by them. Now, we're finally getting to a place where we can implement new ideas - Days of Service definitely seem to be a potential way to go.

Our past exec board was awful at keeping accountability for service hour requirements, so that is one thing I have been emphasizing to our chapter presidents as something we will be focusing in on this upcoming school year. I've personally been trying to set the example, but then again there's only so much one person can do.

[navane]

I really, really like Sen's Day of Service idea. It helps get people "out there" without being overbearing or telling them they need to change their organizational culture. Changes like this take time anyway. If all of the chapters on campus are participating in the event, then that will make it more achievable for chapters which might be reluctant to do hands-on volunteering.

Also, when I worked in Greek Life, our staff were responsible for tracking the service hours of all GLOs. On your campus, it sounds like that task has fallen to the student Panhellenic exec leaders. Is that tracking in addition to the university's tracking efforts or does the university not track that?