Philanthropy

Philanthropy is a major part of Greek Life that is often overlooked.  All Greek students are involved in charity and community service programs across campus and across the country. Annually, Greeks donate more than 500,000 hours of community-based service and donate more than $5 million dollars to support worthy causes.  The Greek community does almost as much philanthropy as the rest of the university combined. Greek Week is the largest philanthropy event.  Each individual chapter also has its own event that raises money for a specific cause. Chapter’s individual philanthropies often raise significant funds and awareness for a wide range of causes, including health care, poverty relief, justice, literacy, the environment and children’s advocacy.

Top 10 Online Fundraising Colleges and Universities Nationwide

These 10 colleges and universities are using online fundraising to become the best in the country in 2007!  (Note: Every school included, besides MSU, includes their entire university raising money whereas MSU the money that is raised is raised by the Greek community alone.)

University Name 2007 RFL of Washington University in St. Louis 2007 RFL of University of Michigan 2007 RFL of Virginia Tech 2007 RFL of Michigan State University Greek Week     2007 RFL of Georgetown University 2007 RFL of University of Pennsylvania 2007 RFL of UC Davis 2007 RFL of Loyola College 2007 RFL of Cornell University 2007 RFL of Syracuse University/SUNY ESF

State     MO MI VA MI DC PA CA MD NY NY

Total Revenue $233,647.25 $141,383.48 $134,397.22 $123,801.31 $117,084.11 $114,601.11 $111,777.34 $107,264.86 $99,205.79 $98,515.84

Rankings represent the top ten college and university Relay For Life events nationwide based on online dollars raised according to weekly ACS reports. Last updated 4/9/2007.