The Alpha Gamma Delta mission statement is "Inspire the women, Impact the world".
While it is a rather simple mission, I think overall it has a great meaning and sometimes simplicity is all you need to get a point across. By us making a difference to girls in our sorority, girls outside of our sorority and women in general, we can make a difference in this world one step at a time. Ironically enough, our philanthropy is juvenile diabetes and a goal of all AGD's was to walk 10,000 miles in a span of two years to raise awareness, which we completed. Each step that we took brought us closer to our goal and raised awareness, slowly impacting our world today and bringing more awareness towards juvenile diabetes.
That is one way that our sorority is congruent with our mission statement. Along with our philanthropy events, we also support many other fraternities and sororities philanthropy events too. I know I personally attended a few last year and plan on being involved in even more this year. Along with going to other philanthropy events were also very active throughout other organizations. Last year we had a team in the Power Puff football tournament that raised awareness of relationship abuse. Many of our girls are also associated with leadership opportunities, Buckeyethon, and PHA. Another way AGD is congruent with our mission statement is through our education. Our sorority looks highly upon education and makes sure that every girl is doing the best to her ability. When people perform well, we are recognized through "mama's fridge" where we put post it notes up of good grades that we got. Also, every quarter girls who get above a 3.14 are given a gift and recognized in front of everyone. Even if a girl didn't do her best one quarter, we have study tables and will pair them up with girls to help them understand their class better. No one is judged in the sorority based on their grades, but are supported in every way possible to let them be the best that they can be.
While I do think of AGD as a great sorority who follows our mission statement for the most part, there are things that make us less congruent. I think that more girls can participate in others philanthropy events. Many times girls sing up to do an event and bail out last minute, which looks bad on AGD as a whole. Also I think we can be more involved with other sororities and fraternities in our community. While we do mingle with other I think we could put more effort into who we know and into creating a better bond with them. I hate how the greek system is judged and always talked about, and I think that we all need to stand together as a whole and one way of doing that is to get to know everyone no matter their stereotype and give them the time of day to truly get to know them.
Not one person or fraternity/sorority is perfect, but I think overall the Greek community can make more of an effort to stand a united front and not only support each other, but support Ohio State in general with many other organizations that are present.
LiEP,
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Nice work on your blog! The example of "mama's fridge" and how AGD recognizes academic excellence is very much needed, so I appreciate you mentioning that. Your example of being congruent with your mission statement goes against the greek system's judgement you mentioned at the end of your blog. Your sorority does not fit the greek stereotype of "dumb" girls who get others to do their homework and party the rest of the time. The only thing I can give you feedback on is the part in which you wrote about getting involved with other sororities and fraternities and not mingling with a few. A better way of accomplishing this goal, other than attending philanthropy events, is through collaboration with other greek orgs. And not just collaboration with the ones you know, but rather reaching out to the ones you mingle with the least and going out of your own council to do so. I hope this helps!
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