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SERVICE PIN
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Here Are Some Examples of Ways to Be of Service

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 / phone-a-thons (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 flower grams 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 Clubs, 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

Service to Scouting

  • BSP Camporees / Scout Fairs / Scout-A-Ramas / 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 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 BSP 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)
  • 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

  • Association of Retarded Citizens
  • Boy Scouts of the Philippines
  • Catholic Social Services
  • Cerebral Palsy Association
  • Christmas cards to overseas servicemen
  • Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
  • Girl Scouts of the Philippines
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Just Say No the campaign against drugs
  • Juvenile Diabetes Society
  • Leukemia Foundation
  • Lupus Foundation
  • Muscular Dystrophy Association
  • National Child Abuse Association
  • National Council for Exceptional Children
  • National Council for Literacy
  • National Liver Foundation
  • National Kidney Foundation
  • Organ donor card distribution
  • Salvation Army
  • Special Olympics
  • Veterans Day services
  • Visiting Nurse Association
  • Voter Registration

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