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The Power of Greek Life. And How Case Can Get Involve By Michael Wasserman. Table Of Contents. The Perception of Greek Life The Real Greek Life Current Partnerships with Greek Organizations What Case can do in the future. What Is the Image We have Now?.
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The Power of Greek Life And How Case Can Get Involve By Michael Wasserman
Table Of Contents • The Perception of Greek Life • The Real Greek Life • Current Partnerships with Greek Organizations • What Case can do in the future
Making a pledge wear an American flag shirt everyday. We call him the "pledge of allegiance." TFM. The “No alcohol beyond this point” sign might as well say “I bet you can’t chug that whole drink” TFM I am a pledge. For every “nice move” I get paddled. Thank you pledge master, Sir. TPM
400,000 active Greek members • 9 million total members • 123 total Chapters • Located on almost every university campus
Legacy • 70% of Greeks graduate college compared to 50% nonaffiliated college students • Greek men 76.6% All male 62.6% Greek women 79.1% All female 68.6% (Based on Auburn University) • 76% of congressman and senators are Greek • 40 of 47 U.S. Supreme Court Justices since 1910 were fraternity men. • 85% of the Fortune 500 executives belong to a fraternity.
2% Of The Population is Greek Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Chester Alan Arthur Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan George Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush Barack Obama
15 Of The Last 27 Presidents Were Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Chester Alan Arthur Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan George Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush Barack Obama
Philanthropy • 10 million volunteer hours given per year • Largest Network of Volunteers in the US • $7 million donated to charity each year • As Alumni Greeks donate 75% of total donations to Universities
Current Partnerships • Sigma Chi and Children’s Miracle Network • Chi Omega and Make a Wish Foundation • Alpha Delta Pi and Ronald McDonald House • Pike and DC Firefighters’ Burn Foundation • Sigma Kappa and Alzheimer's Research
What do they need Focus Education
Toolkits • Similar to Finding Fearless • Easy to make and distribute • Allows chapters to run smoother • More information on where they can give
Make Similar Partnerships • Give money to the same organizations • Creates commonality that sparks relationship • Organizations focusing on the same goal work well together
Speaking Tour • Chapters are always looking for speakers • Great way to teach and learn about philanthropy all over the country • Direct interaction with chapters
Social Citizens • Greeks could have their own blog • Share ideas • Greeks love exclusivity • Link up philanthropy/Service chairs of all chapters • Recent alumni page to see where they can still get involved • “Greeks for Good”