Service
- A list of potential service activities -
Service to the Campus
- Freshman Information Booth (1st-3rd weeks each fall semester)
- Bulletin board maintenance & posting
- Campus-wide cleanups
- Ugly Man On Campus project (and a variety of alternatives)
- Manpower for campus events (ushering, coat checks, valet parking, security, etc.)
- Campus elections officials
- Stadium cleanups
- Homecoming activities (parades, floats, bonfires, dances, etc.)
- Used book exchanges
- Blind Student Center assistance (recording, reading, errand-running)
- Concession stands at athletic events
- Campus tour guides
- Sponsoring and promoting an awareness week (drug, alcohol, AIDS, environment)
- Faculty Night Out (providing babysitting services for special events and banquets)
- Alumni telethons / phonethons (campus fund-raising)
- Registration
- Sponsoring campus events (activities fair, international student festival, health fair, etc.)
- Monitoring teacher evaluations
- Promoting recycling on campus
- Sponsoring a freshman dance or dinner
- Campus phone directories
- Cheering sections and banners at athletic events
- Campus-wide lost and found
- APhiO Week on campus (one project every day)
- Storing students' bikes over the winter
- Campus escort services and safe ride programs
- Valentine's flowergrams and other similar campus sales projects
- Shuttle buses to airport during school vacations/holidays
- Sponsor and maintain a ride board
- Provide help for students moving into the dorms
- Campus surveys
- All Sing contests (sponsoring them or participating in them)
- Anti-vandalism/property identification program
- Caring for school mascot
- Handicapped student assistance and accessibility studies
- Professor of the Year contest
- Sponsor study breaks during mid-terms and finals
Service to the Community
- Local park / cemetery cleanups
- Holiday parties at hospitals, orphanages, nursing homes, etc.
- Provide assistance to women's shelters
- Collect food and funds and provide manpower for local food pantries and soup kitchens
- Nursing home visitation (sometimes with pets)
- Halloween haunted houses, street patrol and safe parties
- Blood drives
- Big Brothers / Big Sisters volunteers
- Assisting the elderly with winterizing, lawn maintenance and home repair
- Hospital volunteers
- Recording for the blind
- Fingerprinting children for identification purposes
- Playground building, repair and litter control
- Assisting with various shelters and organizations providing help for the homeless
- Teen dances (non-alcoholic)
- Provide manpower and fund-raising assistance to humane societies and animal shelters
- Work with local Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp Fire, Boys
& Girls Clubs, etc.
- AIDS awareness and support services
- Clothing drives for the needy
- Help out with YMCA activities
- Museum volunteers and fund-raising assistance
- Re-seeding and other projects at a local arboretum
- Clean-up projects at various community centers and shelters
- Volunteer work and toy drive for local child abuse centers
- Recruit volunteer and provide emergency assistance for crisis prevention hotline
- Provide volunteers and cleanup work for historical societies and their homes
- Work with local projects
- Meals on Wheels volunteers
- Babysitting for C.A.R.E.
- Tutoring for local school districts
- Set up a Community Service Network of volunteers and service organizations
- BSA Camporees / Scout Fairs / Scout-A-Ramas / Winterees, etc.
- Girl Scout Badge Day
- Scouting for Food
- Scout Swim Day (usually at campus swimming pool)
- Boy Scout and Girl Scout camp cleanups and winterizing
- Providing sponsorship and adult leadership for troops
- Helping out with Pinewood / Klondike Derbies
- Helping with council banquets and events
- Providing free babysitting services for council banquets and events
- Sponsoring Scout First Aid Contests for both Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
- Serving as BSA Merit Badge counselors
- Sponsoring Scout Day at the Mall
- Assisting with Girl Scout cookie sales on campus
- Badge University (a joint merit badge day for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts)
- Handicapped Troop Crafts Day
- Trade-O-Ree (patch trading weekend)
- Sponsoring a Fall Color Hike
- Wolverine Golf Classic
- Popcorn sales for troop fund-raisers
- Assist with adult volunteer training
- Camp Fire Fun Run
- Camp Fire Day Camp volunteers
- Scout House cleanups
- Assist with Eagle Scout projects
- Provide help publishing, folding and mailing council newsletters
- Organize and man an APO [APhiO] booth at Scout Fairs
Service to the Nation
Service to the Fraternity
- Attending, planning or hosting a Sectional or Regional Conference or a National Convention
- Assist with a petitioning or reactivation effort
- Sponsor intra-chapter workshops
- Alumni newsletters
- Maintain or update chapter scrapbooks
- Manning APO [APhiO] information booths
- Chapter Program Planning Conference / retreat
- Chapter anniversary celebrations, banquets and alumni receptions
- Recruiting new members for the chapter
Example Fund-Raisers
Alpha Phi Omega chapters provided service to these and other
organizations in both the volunteer and fund-raising areas. Here are
just a few examples of their fund-raising projects:
- Ugly Man On Campus
- Crafts shows
- Charity auctions
- Canoe races
- Diaper relays
- Bike-A-Thons
- Bowl-A-Thons
- Penny drives
- Softball marathons
- Daffodil sales
- Walk-A-Thons
- Dance-A-Thons
- Jail & Bails
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