Philanthropy

Encourage chapter involvement and automate volunteer hours tracking

As a philanthropy chair, you are responsible for organizing and promoting service and charity events within your chapter. Greek Connect can be an invaluable tool to help you accomplish these goals. Let's look at how you can use Greek Connect to encourage chapter involvement in service and charity opportunities and track service hours.

Encouraging Involvement

Getting chapter members involved in their community can be tough, especially when their other involvements pile up. But, by keeping opportunities organized and easily accessible, you can encourage members to get involved and increase your chapter's impact on your community.

• Add service opportunities as calendar events: creating calendar events for upcoming opportunities ensures that members are aware of all the different ways they can get hours and give back to the community. Plus, you can award attendance with automatically added hours so members can skip the paperwork. Learn more about calendar events here.
• Send messages regarding upcoming volunteering events: sending weekly or sporadic messages about upcoming volunteering opportunities can promote attendance and remind members about their philanthropy responsibilities. You can also create a chat just for service opportunities to keep things organized. Learn more about the many messages features here.
• Implement a points system: using Greek Connect's points system will not only encourage members to participate more by allowing them to easily see the impact they are making, but it also saves you time by automatically tracking your chapter's philanthropic efforts.

Tracking Service Hours

Tracking your chapter's service hours can be a daunting task. Each member may have a dozen or more different volunteering events or donations that they attend or give in a semester, so you need to be as organized as possible to ensure you don't end up with a headache in the end.

• Point system creation: creating your point system is a breeze if you follow our documentation here.
• Custom point requests: members can create custom point requests (if enabled) for all the volunteer hours or donations they have outside of automatically tracked points (via events and more). You can then see all the open requests and approve, deny, or modify them as you see fit. You can learn more about custom requests here.
• Automatic points tracking: you can create events that automatically reward members points for their attendance. You can learn about calendar syncing here.
• Location tracking: members can earn points by being located within a designated area for different periods of time. This is great for locations that are always used for volunteering, such as a homeless or pet shelter. Learn more about location tracking here.
• Points exporting: officers (including you) can export individual member point histories or the entire chapter's progress with one click. Learn more about exporting points here.

Conclusion

By using Greek Connect's features, you can streamline the process of organizing and promoting service and charity events, as well as tracking minimum service hours. This can help you fulfill your role as philanthropy chair more efficiently and effectively, and ultimately help your chapter make a positive impact on your community.