Philanthropy...

Whether it is mentoring an elementary student or planning the Miss Grandview pageant at the local senior center, Alpha Chi's love to lend a helping hand.

We support our national philanthropy, the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation, which helps combat domestic abuse and violence throughout the nation. Locally, we maintain the effort by pledging over 500 hours to the domestic violence shelter in Athens. We also raised money to build a playground for the children at the shelter.

Each spring, Beta Sigma hosts their annual silent auction and golf tournament weekend. Parents, alumnae and friends are all invited to a night of dinner and dancing. Last year, we had a mexican fiesta at the Georgia Museum of Art and the highest bidders received plane tickets and Tiffany's jewelry. The next morning the Alpha Chi Golf Tournament tee's off. A lucky person with a hole-in-one even gets a chance to win a free car! This year our philanthropy weekend raised $50,000 for Relay for Life and the American Cancer Society.

Throughout the year, Alpha Chi's participate in other organizations' philanthropies to raise money for numerous local and national charities. Alpha Chi's won first place in Delta Tau Delta's Christmas Challenge in 2005 and 2006, and Sigma Chi's 2006 Derby Days. We also participated and came in 2nd place in Beta Theta Pi's Choral Cup, an a capella competition that raised money for Relay for Life.

The giving spirit of Alpha Chi Omega extends far beyond the Greek community. Our sisters devote hundreds of hours to special causes around campus and the community. Whether they are organizing an event to promote ending local poverty, giving extra attention to premature babies, tutoring underprivileged Clarke County students or walking several miles to raise money for cancer research, Alpha Chi's enthusiastically give back to their community and support their fellow students.



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