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Spring 2019
Halo Highlights College Weekend
More than 700 Pi Phi leaders across North America converged on St. Louis for College Weekend 2019. This premier Fraternity leadership experience is designed to educate chapter leaders and advisors on best practices in a variety of topics, focusing on specific areas of chapter operations. Foundation representatives discussed the impact our programs and funding have on the Pi Phi experience. Chapter giving was celebrated, recognizing both the Top 10 chapters in 2018 and the collective funds raised – a record-breaking year, with a total of $1,583,670.06 given by our chapters! Many attendees also answered the call to join our monumental SHINE THROUGH campaign and support Pi Phi Giving Day, contributing more than $3,600 for the Friendship Fund.
Stand Up to Harvard
In Fall 2018, Harvard University began to enforce its policy imposing sanctions against students who belong to single-sex social organizations, including sororities and fraternities, stripping members of the opportunity to fully participate in other campus organizations. Because of Harvard’s sanctions, nearly all Harvard sorority chapters have closed. While Pi Beta Phi does not have a chapter at Harvard, we believe students have the right to shape their own futures. We feel that a threat, such as this, to any fraternal organization is a threat to the future of our sisterhood. Pi Phi is proud to join our friends and #standuptoharvard. Learn how you can support this effort at www.standuptoharvard.com.
Fraternity Day of Service
Hundreds of Pi Beta Phi members, friends and family distributed thousands of books to children in Phoenix, Arizona; Tucson, Arizona; Omaha, Nebraska and Indianapolis, Indiana as part of Pi Phi’s Fraternity Day of Service. Over the weekend of March 1-2, Pi Beta Phi put new books in the hands of 80,000 children. Pi Phi’s Fraternity Day of Service Signature Events are fully funded through donor support of Pi Beta Phi Foundation. Above: Collegiate representatives from the 2018 Top 10 chapters for giving.
Proposed Officer Structure Legislation
Pi Beta Phi recognizes the need to evolve and adapt to better meet the needs of our members and to ensure the Fraternity’s legacy lives on for the next 150 years. As a result, legislation proposing a new officer leadership structure will be presented at Convention 2019. The proposed collegiate structure creates more opportunities for leadership at the chapter level, and chapter officers will have more opportunities to coach each other and collaborate as a team. On the chapter support side of the international officer structure, the proposal provides simplicity and consistency with the collegiate structure. Learn more by visiting www.pibetaphi.org/officerstructure.
A group volunteers gather at the 2018 Fraternity Day of Service in Bakersfield, Calif., where Pi Phis and friends handed out 20,000 new books.
