Philanthropy: what it means to each of our chapters

Gamma Phi Beta:

Gamma Phi Beta envisions, “a community in which every girl and woman has the resiliency to advance her own life and the lives of others.” Every community has various opportunities for Gamma Phi Beta chapters to manifest the growth of girls in understanding their value and potential. The idea that we can foster joy, strength, and resilience through our connectedness and actions, guides our sense of leadership and character in our chapters. We build the bonds of sisterhood through our focus on “building strong girls.”
Gamma Phi Beta is proud of our philanthropic partnership with Girls on the Run International, a nonprofit organization with the mission to ignite a sense of overall health and confidence in girls while integrating a sense of community through its 5k marathon. Our values align with our partner’s in pursuing, “a world where every girl knows and activates her limitless potential and is free to boldly pursue her dreams.”
Along with this marathon, Gamma Phi Beta chapters host it’s signature philanthropic event, Moonball. At CSUF, our Delta Delta chapter organizes a basketball tournament to raise funds and awareness to support Girls on the Run Orange County. Additionally, this tournament provides a healthy pastime for participants to further illuminate our core values of community and strength through physical activity.
Gamma Phi Betas aim to serve as mentors, leaders, and outlets for girls and women in their lives. Sisterhood is rooted in the strength we have for ourselves and the women around us. Strong girls should not solely strive to pass down these qualities to the next generation, but help them to find their own fire and strength.

Alpha Chi Omega: 

Alpha Chi Omega’s national philanthropy is supporting victims of domestic violence through fundraising, education and awareness. Each spring we host our annual Pancake Breakfast, where friends, family and members of the community are invited to our chapter house to enjoy a yummy meal. While breakfast is important, this event has great value and helps us to support an incredibly significant cause. This event is planned by our VP Philanthropy and executed by our members through ticket sales, cooking the meals and serving our guests, with all proceeds being donated. At this event, a speaker from Laura’s House, a local domestic violence shelter that we support, offers impactful information regarding their shelter and its residents. This helps to put the severity of this topic in perspective and explains the need for stopping the violence and giving survivors a voice. This year, we added 3 apparel and accessory vendors that sold their products and donated a portion of their transactions. Our Pancake Breakfast closes out Alpha Chi Omega’s recognition of Healthy Relationships Week, which is celebrated in mid-February each
year. Our sisters spent the week tabling on campus, providing educational materials with our “These Hands Don’t Hurt” campaign and selling kiss-grams that are delivered to someone special. This allows our women to convey our key message, LOVE SHOULDN’T HURT. We appreciate the continued support from our campus and community peers. Through their generosity, we raised over $6,400 for Laura’s House and the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation!

Zeta Tau Alpha:

As Zeta Tau Alpha women, we support and raise money each year for our philanthropies: Breast Cancer Education & Awareness and the ZTA Foundation. Each semester we host events to help raise money, as well as spread awareness. Specifically our chapter, Theta Phi, raises the most money in our Southern California province for our philanthropies. In the fall, Zeta Tau Alpha kicks off greek life events on campus with our annual, highly anticipated Pink Week, in the first week of October. Also, in the spring, we host our major event called Monte Carlo, where we get our families, friends, and loved ones involved to support our philanthropy as well. Another way we spread the awareness for our philanthropy is by attending Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams football games, every fall, where we pass out our pink ribbons and support the women who have faced Breast Cancer. With all this being said, regardless of the time of year it is, as Zetas we are always spreading awareness, supporting, and empowering the 1 in 8 diagnosed women that have to put up a fight against Breast Cancer .

Alpha Delta Pi:

Alpha Delta Pi supports the Ronald McDonald House Charities to provide temporary housing for families receiving medical care at children's hospitals around the world. We, as Alpha Delta Pi women, get the opportunity to visit and cook meals for the families staying in the Ronald McDonald House to give love and assistance during their difficult time. Being able to volunteer to make the day better for these amazing families is such an incredible feeling! I myself have stayed at the Ronald McDonald House a few times with my own family so being able to give back to an organization that once gave so much to me is incredible. The only thing that makes it that much better is volunteering with an amazing group of women that I get to call my sisters. Knowing my sisters care so much about our philanthropy makes me love Alpha Delta Pi that much more! -Sister Mariah Haith, Alpha Delta Pi  (Alpha Class '19)

Sigma Kappa:

Sigma Kappa prides ourselves on living “One heart, One way” every day. Sigma Kappa provides many opportunities for members to make an impact through our five philanthropies: Sigma Kappa Foundation, Inherit the Earth, Gerontology, Maine Seacoast Mission, and Alzheimer’s Research.  

One of Sigma Kappa’s philanthropy events, Frats at Bat, is an annual baseball tournament that occurs during the Fall semester between each of the greek chapters at CSUF. The teams get to compete with each other while raising money and awareness for the national Alzheimer’s Association. The week leading up to the annual event our sisters fundraise and spread awareness on campus about the importance of Alzheimer’s Research for our society’s future. As the nation’s sixth-leading cause of death, Sigma Kappa is dedicated to putting an end to Alzheimer’s by creating a major funding stream to the national Alzheimer’s Association for research to find a cure. Sigma Kappa is one of the nation’s leading contributors to prevention and treatment, with over $3 million in funding to advance Alzheimer's and dementia science. Within the fund, $1 million was gifted to the Women’s Alzheimer’s Research Initiative for female researchers who are advancing Alzheimer’s and dementia science. In 2019 Epsilon Tau was able to donate $10,000 and contribute to the hopes of one day finally “striking out” Alzheimer's Disease.

Delta Zeta:

Delta Zeta was founded in 1902 by six women at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a vision to share sisterly-love, to empower women, to promote learning, and to impact our world. We are now a large national sorority with 171 chapters across the US and Canada, with over 200,000 members. Our Iota Upsilon chapter at CSU Fullerton was founded in 1968.

We have a heart for hearing. Speech and Hearing have been our philanthropy focus since 1954.

Our local Philanthropy events, Cirque du Starkey in the Spring, and Taco Bout Starkey in the Fall raise funds for Starkey Hearing Foundation whose mission is to help the world to hear.

We spend time working together with others to make the world a better place. Our national community service project is the Painted Turtle, a camp for children with life-threatening and chronic illnesses in Lake Hughes, CA. Our members are able to volunteer at the camp.

We are life-long learners. Becoming our best self-long process. Academics and developing life skills are a priority, so we celebrate our members’ academic successes and accomplishments.

Our shared values are Friendship, Curiosity, Generosity, Citizenship, Empowerment and Belonging. The women of Delta Zeta share a common purpose: to make life fuller, meaningful, and more rewarding throughout our lifetimes.