Recruitment Help!!

[mystikchick]

Originally Posted by Fleur de Lis

Well, props for having an informative website!

Why doesn't each member invite one trusted friend who can contribute to your sisterhood? You can also place an ad in the school newspaper or post on a message board about an information meeting. Another idea is similar to NPC informal recruitment like a bowling night or dinner out where members can get to know PNMs and vice versa before committing.

I would encourage you to make prospective members feel "chosen" because we all like to feel special. Good luck!

Great website, but I just wanted to point out one little thing. In your "FAQ" section, the response to whether you pledge/haze says:
" We also do not pledge our members. WE strive to eliminate the possiblity for any time of hazing and thus our organzation sustains from any type of pledge period."

You want the word abstain

I like that your website has upcoming events listed, make sure you keep that updated. Also, since it seems you have an issue with being allowed to advertize on campus, take advantage of any other means possible, especially Facebook. Invite people, encourage people you know to invite people, advertise heavily and incessantly. Create a group to keep people informed, etc. Same thing goes with using email - contact anyone you think might be interested and ask them to spread the word. Word of mouth works well too. How about having a day where all your sisters wear their letters to class? You've got to be creative to work with the system, but good luck!

[Denise_DPhiE]

Your website says you are citywide. Did you model yourselves on the NPHC groups who sometimes share a charter amongst several campuses? If you allow women in from several different campuses, your recruitment strategy would be VERY different than what most of us could provide.

[OmegaPDPrez]

mystyk- thanks for the word, i'll update~

I wasnt aware that our website shows that we are city-wide.
The problem is that we really just want to stay at one school ( the one which we all attend) but since our school will not allow us any affiliation, we are trying to appear as a community sorority. In actually we want to govern ourselves as a local sorority with strong ties to our school, since our school is the reason why we were founded.
We know that there are women out there, on our campus, who could use exposure to a group like OPD, but with our limited accessability to advertise, it is hard to get ourselves out there. Which is the reason why i started this thread.
I like the ideas that have been posted and my group and I will try and use the ones that could benefit us the most!

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by OmegaPDPrez

mystyk- thanks for the word, i'll update~

I wasnt aware that our website shows that we are city-wide.
The problem is that we really just want to stay at one school ( the one which we all attend) but since our school will not allow us any affiliation, we are trying to appear as a community sorority. In actually we want to govern ourselves as a local sorority with strong ties to our school, since our school is the reason why we were founded.
We know that there are women out there, on our campus, who could use exposure to a group like OPD, but with our limited accessability to advertise, it is hard to get ourselves out there. Which is the reason why i started this thread.
I like the ideas that have been posted and my group and I will try and use the ones that could benefit us the most!

Are there any recognized multi-cultural organizations on your campus? If not, I think you have a good case for discrimination and may want to discuss this again with your university. If other sororities are allowed to advertise (including another local which just misses being included by the rule because they were already around when it was written) and all are traditional caucasian dominated organizations, you may not have to work very hard to prove your case.

[OmegaPDPrez]

AOII i will PM you!

[OmegaPDPrez]

I wasnt thinking that it was discrimination, i was thinking that maybe it was a liability factor. I dont know when the rule was written but it had to have been after the 70's and before today because it was in the rules last year and probably the year before also. But i think i get your point and i will discuss it with my group.