The chapter's philanthropy/community service program should exemplify our motto of "An Assisting Hand." The program should contain a general philosophy of the chapter toward philanthropic and community service, a list of organizations/individuals assisted through the process, the number of members and other groups that participated, total hours worked and total dollar amount contributed. The program should also contain a number of hands-on service learning projects, as well as media coverage and/or any other correspondence involved with the efforts.
Philanthropy is defined as an activity done to raise money or donate funds to an non-profit organization.
Community Service is defined as something made or done by an organization for the public benefit and without regard to direct profit.
During the past Spring 2010, the Theta Chi fraternity participated and gave hundreds of community service hours. Some of the events we participated in this semester are below.
February 27th, 2010
In Mahomet, IL, 15 minutes west of campus, Theta Chi had their first service event of the semester. Here, they helped set up and organized the Polar Plunge, a charity event set up to raise money for the Special Olympics and the athletes that participate in the games. Brothers Jake Franzen, Mike Chan, Chris Makowiecki, Ankit Shah, Aaron Belay, Ben Donaldson, TC Lilly, Ryan Smith, Tom Raymond, Peter Hartwell, Andrew Hughes, Ricardo Vaughn, Prerit Mahajan, along with new spring semester pledges Alex Libby and Sam Peters came out to help support the "Polar Plungers" who raised $73,000 total to jump into a chipped out frozen lake.
April 10th, 2010
On a beautiful Saturday morning, more than one-third of the men of Theta Chi Fraternity showed up at Scott Park for the Boneyard Creek Community Day, where they volunteered three hours of their morning to help preserve and clean-up areas of the University of Illinois campus. Thanks to Jake Franzen, Kevin Phillips, Peter Hartwell, Alan Walnoha, Marcin Kleczynski, Edwin Corral, Alex Libby, Mike Chan, Prerit Mahajan, Robert Zielinski, Tom Raymond, Sam Berk, Chris Makowiecki, Ankit Shah, Steve Torrez, Tatsu Shigeta, Ryan Smith, John Pesce, and Josh Sikat, who took their mornings to give back to the community and helped restore the beauty of our campus. This was the second service event of the semester and 6 people finished their required service hours for the semester!
May 1st, 2010
Champaign-Urbana was host to this year's 2010 Illinois Marathon and Theta Chi was represented by Brothers Tatsu Shigeta and Mike Chan who both ran the half-marathon. These two took the time out of their day to run and get in shape and conquer the half-marathon. We sold Krispy Kreme donuts to help raise money for our Team In Training; thanks to help from Steve Torrez, Ryan Smith, Jake Franzen, Alan Walnoha, John Pesce, Ben Donaldson, Mike Chan, Ankit Shah, Rob Zielinski, Ricardo Vaughn, TC Lilly, Ben Peden, Zack Botkin, Aaron Belay, Josh Sikat, and Ali Sakr. We also raised a total of $1,420.00 from generous donations from friends and family. We also have reached a high point in which 22 members have completed their required 5 hours of volunteering.