Bronze
What are the three signature programs for Delta Gamma Foundation?
Service for Sight, Grants to the Fraternity for Leadership and Educational Programming, and Grants to Individual Members.
How many Sight hours do you need a semester? Where do you submit them?
5 sight hours, engage form
What main event do we host in order to raise money for Service for Sight?
Anchor Splash/Anchor Games
Give your favorite memory for an extra 50 points :)
Do you have to donate to the Visionary Society?
Who is the current VP: Foundation and Director of Anchor Splash?
Megan Nguyen and Ashlie Estes
our philanthropy, where Delta Gammas raise money and awareness and do service for the blind or visually impaired community; includes Service for Sight: Joining Forces and the Golden Anchor Program
What is the Golden Anchor Program?
Foundation program designed to support and bring joy to senior citizens. The likelihood of sight issues increases with age
How many events does our chapter need to host per academic year to raise money for the Delta Gamma Foundation and local 501(c)(3) organizations that share in our Service for Sight mission.
2 aka Anchor Games and Anchor Splash
Who were the Founders of Delta Gamma?
Anna Boyd Ellington, Mary Comfort Leonard, and Eva Webb Dodd
The Foundation’s approved online fundraising vendor is?
What is Member Planet? (Other online fundraising vendors/providers [ex. Venmo] are prohibited.)
Give some examples of what Delta Gamma does with Grants to Individual members
merit-based scholarships and graduate fellowships, need-based scholarships, Anchor Grants (money to help Delta Gammas in times of crisis) and student loans
What is Service for Sight: Joining Forces?
Service for Sight: Joining Forces is a Foundation initiative designed to give back to the men and women of the military in the United States and Canada. Many of our service men and women are returning home experiencing an increase in vision impairment,
eye trauma or vision loss.
What is the Visionaries Society?
The Delta Gamma Visionaries is an annual giving society for collegiate members. This society educates collegiate women on the mission and goals of the Delta Gamma Foundation and establishes a culture of lifetime giving.
Donations from Visionaries are unrestricted and go to the Loyalty Fund. The Loyalty Fund supports all three of the Foundation’s signature programs: Service for Sight, Grants to the Fraternity for Leadership and Educational Programming, and Grants to Individual Members.
The "H" on the original DG badge stands for this
Hope
What are the labels we can cut out and donate 30 of to get 1 service hour per semester?
Box tops
Give an example what Delta Gamma does with Grants to the Fraternity for Leadership and Educational Programming
the Foundation provides annual grants to the Fraternity to help with funding for programs such as: CDC program, risk management training, the Leveraging Leaders program/Lewis Institute, PROs, Mu Chapter Lamp of Knowledge, and One Student
Name two of the five cities that Delta Gamma founded and sponsors school for children who are visually impaired or blind
Los Angeles, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis and Phoenix.
What is Delta Gamma Foundation Anchor Grants
Delta Gamma Foundation Anchor Grants help DG sisters who find themselves in extreme financial need created by job loss, health crisis, natural disasters or other unexpected life circumstances
The blind Frenchman who created a system of raised dots to allow the blind and visually impaired to read
Louis Braille
Name some places where you can volunteer and get Service Hours.
Alabama Deaf and Blind, any nursing home, etc.
Who was the person that proposed our philanthropy and what year did she propose this? (You need correct person and year in order to get points)
Since 1936, sight conservation and aid to the blind has been Delta Gamma’s philanthropy, proposed by Ruth Billow, Eta-Akron, a blind Delta Gamma at Convention.
What is the Mission of Delta Gamma Foundation? (It is not to Do Good)
“The Delta Gamm aFoundation fosters lifetime enrichment for members, promotes Service for Sight and partners with the Fraternity to ensure the future of our sisterhood.”
Anchor Splash started in what year?
1966
Percentage of soldiers that return home with eye trauma?
13-20%
Delta Gamma's motto
"Do Good"