Inaugural Vera Bradley Bingo!

This Monday, April 21st, UNA's Panhellenic Council will be hosting the inaugural Vera Bradley Bingo Philanthropy Event! 

At this event, participants will be able to purchase a ticket for $10 and play 10 rounds of traditional bingo! Bingo winners will win one of the Vera Bradley bags that have been donated by the 4 Panhellenic chapter among other prizes! Prizes are valued at $50 or more so the $10 ticket is worth much, much more if your bingo cards bring you luck! 

Tickets can be purchased at the door or the GUC Banquet Halls! The event will be from 6-8 p.m. at the Gulliot University Center on the UNA Campus! Proceed for this event will be benefitting the Sydney Safe Foundation. 

Sarah Thompson founded Sydney Safe in honor of her sister who struggled with depression as a result of abuse. The foundation offers children in similar situations meals and a support system to prevent the same results as her sister. They also provide Christmas gifts to children during the holiday season who may not receive any. All the proceeds from Vera Bradley bingo will help Sarah and the foundation continue their efforts! 

Hope to see you all on Monday! 

It's okay to be proud, but not too proud!

Welcome to the new Panhellenic blog! To kick everything off with our new initiative, we thought it would be good start off on the right foot with a little inspiration about unity, especially in the light of Greek Week! 

We all have our own individual chapters that we hold so dear and are quick to lend our service to or jump to defend when duty calls, but sometimes we forget that we are apart of something so much more than ourselves and our chapters. We are all greek women. We all have a different air about us. 

We are the (very) few that get this experience and occasionally we take it for granted. 

Did you know that less than 7 percent of people in the world have a college degree? And of that less than 7%, not even 1% are Greek. Crazy. 

We are privileged. We are the ones who have sisters there to hold us up and support us and be there for us to make the memories that we will cherish for the rest of our lives. But not everyone gets that. 

We also must remember that when our founders created our organizations, they weren't focused on winning Step Show or Step Sing, intramural championships, philanthropy events, or Greek Week. They were focused on building a lifelong sisterhood with one another and building the relationships with other women in a time when women had to fight to go to college, couldn't vote or even own property. They were simply forming a strong, giving, and value-driven community of women who knew that they could change the lives of other women and the community where they were placed. 

We get to be the few and the proud. We have something that no greek bill can accurately price. We have a network of strong sisters in our own organizations and an even stronger sisterhood of Pahellenic women!