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