Inspire the Woman, Impact the World

Inspire the Woman, Impact the World.


This is Alpha Gamma Delta's vision. My sorority believes that if we can inspire the women in our sorority to live up to our true values and inspire them to be the most amazing woman they can be, than we can go out and impact the World. We can change the World.


This isn't all that we hold true. We have missions, we have a purpose as a Sorority. All the talk of values lately has made me realize why I chose Alpha Gamma Delta in the first place. They're all amazing women, each and every one.


Our mission is as follows..

Alpha Gamma Delta is an international fraternity for women that exists to provide opportunities for personal development through the spirit of sisterhood.

We support lifelong learning as a means to gain understanding and wisdom.

We promote the value of fraternal membership and commitment to higher education.

We help prepare members to contribute to the world's work. 

We advocate lifetime involvement in Alpha Gamma Delta.

SO this is how I interpret this. Our values, based on our mission, would be education, understanding, wisdom, membership, commitment, and service. All in all, these values are very similar to those that I listed a few weeks ago during our Values activity. 

Our sorority does an amazing job advocating education. We have this Skippy Jar, basically if you go a week without skipping a class, then at Chapter on Monday you get to put your name into the Skippy Peanut Butter jar. If your name gets pulled out of the jar, then you win a prize. Strive for Pi is also a great way to get our sorority involved. Each quarter our girls "strive" to get at least a 3.14 GPA. We also have study tables, so when a woman is struggling in her classes she can do study tables and hours each week to help her improve her GPA. I feel we do a great job displaying how important education is to us. 

We also keep pretty tight alumni relations. We have luncheons and events where we get to meet alumni and tell them how the chapter is doing. This helps encourage us to stay loyal and committed to Alpha Gam throughout our lives, not just during college. 

Theres one value, however, that I feel we could try to do more with. In our Purpose we talk about contributing to the world's work. I know that we participate in service events and that each of us attend the various philanthropy events. However, I feel this is one of our weakest links. We all try to attend the mandatory events, and I know we all enjoy the events, but I believe most of us put it at the bottom of our priorities list. 

We all need to try try TRY to do more individually to work harder. We are supposed to keep track of service hours each quarter, however, each month the majority of our girls come up a little short. If we could improve this, we could live up to the potential that I know we can all reach. I know we can fix this.

I'm proud of my sisters. :)

I found a cool video about Alpha Gamma Delta, it was filmed by some of our sisters at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. It spells out our purpose, but its a creative way of doing it. My sisters here in Columbus will appreciate it :)

And for those of you who read my last blog, my TOMS came in the mail today. I love them :) and I'll wear them tomorrow. 

Annalise