Community Service

By: Jesslyn Brantley

Community Service Fall Semester

Phi Mu car wash for the Children’s Miracle Network

Collecting tabs for the Ronald McDonald House

Fundraising for Oprah’s School for Girls

Operation Christmas Child - Samaritan's Purse

Community Service Spring

Semester Freshmen Visitation Day Tour Guide Healthy Heart Walk W.G. Nunn Spring Festival Relay 4 Life Phi Mu Volleyball Tournament for

Children’s Miracle Network

RELAY 4 LIFE Relay For Life is a fun-filled overnight

event designed to celebrate survivorship and raise money for research and programs of your American Cancer Society.

Relay offers something for everyone, from the newly diagnosed, to caregivers and friends, to long-term survivors.

RELAY 4 LIFE Relay For Life represents the hope that

those lost to cancer will never be forgotten, that those who face cancer will be supported, and that one day cancer will be eliminated.

I participated in Relay 4 Life with my sorority, because I knew it would be a great time to spend with my sisters, and because my mother is a cancer survivor.

Children’s Miracle Network

Children's Miracle Network is a non-profit organization dedicated to saving and improving the lives of children by raising funds for children’s hospitals across North America.

Volleyball Tournament

Children’s Miracle Network is our primary philanthropy focus. Nearly 160 children’s hospitals benefit from fund raisings yearly. All monies raised stay in the local community for patient care, new equipment and research into children's diseases, illnesses, and injuries.

Since 1986, Phi Mus have raised almost $4 million. Our fund-raising goal is $500,000 each calendar year.

Volleyball Tournament

For my chapter’s yearly, BIG fund raising event, we host a volleyball tournament for local and non-local people to participate in.

We raised over $10,000 which goes to CMN.

Why community service in important

Community service is great for everyone. It gives you the chance to do something that will benefit someone else and most of the time it benefits more than just one person. It allows you to give back to the community, and to help the underprivileged.

My Experiences

I love doing community service, and I have been doing it for about four years now. In those four years I have had the chance to do some really neat things. One of my favorites was taking the women at the Haven a Mother’s Day lunch. The best experience, though, is seeing the smiles that are given to you after you have helped someone.

Will I continue? I know I will continue to do

community service. I really enjoy participating in community service and helping other people. With my sorority, community service is very important, which is another reason I will continue doing it.

My Opinion I think that community service is tons of

fun. Yes, it can be hard work , and sometimes it is strenuous, but it is a terrific thing to do. It is good for everyone, because it help others, and it helps the person doing it. I think each service performed is a learning experience that benefits both the giver and the receiver.