Philanthropy and Service

Philanthropy

Delta Zeta's National Philanthropy is Speech and Hearing. As sisters of Delta Zeta, our chapter supports this cause fully along with supporting other causes throughout the community. We sponsor many events that help those in need! We donate to the Delta Zeta Foundation, the Foundation then turns around and provided financial support to Gallaudet University located in Washington, D.C., as well as the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles, California. The Foundation also provides scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students that are members of our national organization.

Each Year Delta Zeta sponsor's many different fundraisers, as well as partcipates in community service projects. These projects range from speech and hearing impairment causes to supporting the other Greek chapters at JSU in their philanthropic endeavors.

Turtle Tug is one of our many fundraisers for Speech and Hearing Impairment. We encourage our fellow Greeks, and other campus organizations to come out and try their skills at tug o war with a twist!
The loser falls into a tarp of green jell-o!

Some projects we have participated in the past include:
Stuff a Stocking in our big project this fall, we want to give a little joy to some deserving boys and girls in the local area!
Providing refreshments for an area youth soccer team coached by Sigma Nu Brothers.
Selling Pampered Chef Cookie Molds to benefit the America's Second Harvest fund.
Reading to local elementary school children.
as well as donating movable hands to learn sign language.
Helping local Girl Scouts
Making Halloween goodie bags for the Alabama and Georgia Institutes for Deaf and Blind
Girl Talk - spending quality time with abused and neglected teenage girls.
Pop Tops for cancer
Supporting Pi Kappa Phi's PUSH America in War of the Roses
Supporting Zeta Tau Alpha in breast cancer awareness - THINK PINK!
These are just a few examples of what Delta Zeta does to improve the local community.

Updated May 31, 2007

Sound Beginnings
At National Convention, Chris Kolodgie Kern, Iota Xi, National Philanthropy Chairman-Collegiate, unveiled the "Sound Beginnings" program. This important program will raise awareness of the need for newborn hearing screenings and the importance of early intervention by six months of age when a hearing loss is identified. Delta Zeta Sorority is partnering with the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM) on the program. Delta Zetas will make a difference in the lives of the youngest in our world by providing a video and informational brochures to local organizations who work with mothers and infants. These places might include birthing hospitals, pediatric offices, WIC centers, and others. Chris explains, "The technology to identify a hearing loss in babies just a few days old is used in many, many hospitals and is painless for the baby. Indentifying the hearing loss is only the first step though. Once a hearing loss is identified, it is important for parents to begin an intervention program that works for their family. There are many options for children today, but early intervention - especially when begun by six months of age - makes a tremendous impact on how that child will learn and socialize."
Delta Zeta collegians do service projects and raise money for many local speech and hearing organizations. "Their commitment to these organizations is fantastic," Chris continues. "To build a national identity for our work for the speech and hearing impaired, however, we needed a nationwide project. The Sound Beginnings Program will be heloing many, many families and newborn babies, and it is our hope that Delta Zeta Sorority will be recognized nationally for all of its work for the speech and hearing impaired. Our philanthropic work is one example of our Creed in action!"

Congrats to the gentlemen of Pi Kappa Phi and ladies of Alpha Xi Delta in winning our annual Turtle Tug Fundraiser for Speech and Hearing !