Community Service Initiatives
Day of CaringThe Valparaiso University Day of Caring event takes places every fall, and all sororities participate annually. Day of Caring is a serve plunge experience for 500+ students at the University.
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Golden Living CenterThe Panhellenic and Interfraternity Councils are partnering to provide programming for the residents of the Golden Living Center in Valparaiso University for the 2016-2017 academic year.
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Lutheran Basketball TournamentValparaiso University is home to the annual Lutheran Basketball Association of America Tournament each spring. Members of the fraternity and sorority community volunteer to work the concessions for the entire tournament as a community service opportunity.
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Fraternity and Sorority Spring Service TripValparaiso University has a robust Spring Service Trip Program, and in 2015 the fraternity and sorority community partnered with the University to host the inagural Fraternity and Sorority Spring Service Trip. The inagural trip was to Memphis, Tennessee where 18 students spend their spring break participating in service events while also having the opportunity to visit the three fraternity and sorority headquarters in Memphis.
In 2016, 24 students participated in the 2nd Annual Fraternity and Sorority Spring Service Trip that went to Washington D.C. The students completed service at DC Central Kitchen for two days and with the Central Area Food Bank. The 2017 Fraternity and Sorority Spring Service Trip is in the planning stages, and information will be available soon! |
Philanthropy Initiatives
Dance MarathonMiracle Network Dance Marathon is a movement of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, a non-profit organization that raises funds and awareness for more than 170 pediatric hospitals. We are the only children’s charity committed to having 100% of the funds raised stay local to support local kids.
Since inception, Miracle Network Dance Marathon has raised more than $135 million for kids across North America- ensuring that no child or family fights pediatric illness or injury alone. |
Relay for LifeThe world’s largest, most impactful fundraising event to fight cancer is coming to your campus! Sign up today to participate in your school’s American Cancer Society Relay For Life event. By participating in the Relay For Life movement, you’ll be gaining valuable leadership and community service experience, while supporting the fight against cancer. Thanks to the support of student volunteers at Relay For Life events, the American Cancer Society is helping to save more than 500 lives from cancer every day.
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Circle of SisterhoodThe Circle of Sisterhood Foundation is a mechanism by which all sorority women can stand together across affiliation, age, color, and creed to make a difference in the lives of millions of girls and women around the world. Collectively, we are one of the largest communities of college-education women in the world while not even seven percent of the world – men and women combined – has college degrees, and two thirds of all illiterate adults are women. Standing together as one community, we will give girls and women an equal chance for rewarding lives and livelihoods through schooling, the learning of a trade, or even a college degree.
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