Tri Delta Today
Educating, Elevating, Celebrating
Tri Delta hosts record-breaking
Volunteer Leadership Conference
Tri Delta set a new standard with Volunteer Leadership Conference 2019 — our largest ever! A record number of nearly 500 dedicated and loyal volunteers (including 200 brand new volunteers!) brought their talents to Texas on July 12-14. The weekend was full of learning and development, friendship and fun as Tri Delta educated, elevated and celebrated our volunteers who “render willing service” to our sisterhood in the amount of $19 million of volunteer hours annually.
Educating
eral hours for dedicated collaboration time. A great example of this was the Delta Dialogues lunch, providing a venue for attendees to brainstorm and provide feedback to Tri Delta committees. Together, volunteers shared ideas on a variety of topics: expanding and diversifying membership, strengthening Tri Delta leadership, seniors and Circle Degree, and the St. Jude philanthropic experience were just a few of the topics brainstormed. At VLC, Tri Delta unveiled its first-ever app, CONNECTDDD! Harnessing the power of Facebook and LinkedIn, CONNECTDDD allows members across the world to network, become mentors, seek mentorship and explore professional opportunities. Volunteers were excited to join the community and immediately began sharing and concould not do necting on the app. At press time, more than 2,000 Tri Deltas are connected.
Volunteer Leadership Conference is all about educating. With 13 separate tracks dedicated to specific volunteer roles, attendees received job-specific instruction and peer-topeer learning designed to provide powerful ‘‘Tri Delta conversations, intentional learning and many what we do at moments of inspiration. (A recap of all these tracks can be found on tridelta.org/my-tri- and level we do delta/education.) you. Your work
the scale it without Elevating matters!” As an organization
dedicated to help- Fraternity President Kimberlee Di Fede ing women become the best versions “VLC helped me not only strengthen my conof themselves, Tri Delta made personal Sullivan, Pepperdine. tent knowledge in my volunteer role but also and professional development a priority my leadership skills,” shared Monica Gibson, Millsaps. “These throughout the weekend, elevating our members, not only in skills are beneficial in my Tri Delta volunteer role, my career and their volunteer roles, but in their personal and professional my personal life. I am so honored to serve an organization that lives. continues to invest in their members throughout their lives.” VLC featured seven different personal and professional develPerhaps equally as important as track time was networking time. opment workshops to choose from. Topics included having a Sharing ideas and best practices is vital to any volunteer role, and confident mindset, mental health, engaging with Generation Z, attendees loved having the opportunity to connect, network and training on leadership, advocacy, and Tri Delta’s updated comlearn from one another. Whether it was the regional networking petency model and how it guides the Leadership Development dessert reception or the networking breakfast, VLC set aside sevCommittee (LDC). There were tangible takeaways for everyone.
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The Trident Fall 2019
Photos: Denny Medley/GreekYearbook
