Circle of Sisterhood

The University of South Carolina’s involvement with Circle of Sisterhood has been one of the most active in the country. We began one year ago with naming Circle of Sisterhood as the philanthropy for Sorority Council. The first step in making this known to each of our chapters was presenting it to the Sorority presidents at one of our weekly council meetings. We asked that each president to report back to their chapter with information on what CofS in order to spread awareness. The council held multiple percent nights at local restaurants, but the first main fundraising effort that we had was creating a Greek wide t-shirt that was sold to all members of the Fraternity and Sorority Life community. The shirts were so popular around our community that we had to have two rounds of selling them, and there were also people from other schools around the country that were interested in buying them too. The first round we sold 1,111 shirts and donated $3.25 per shirt adding up to $3,610.75. The second round we sold over 780 shirts and donated $6 per shirt adding up to $4,680.00. 

The council plans to sell the 2013 t-shirt this year in hopes of raising even more money for the Circle of Sisterhood!

2013 All Greek T-shirt

2012 All Greek T-shirt

Circle of Sisterhood Motto: The Circle of Sisterhood Foundation will leverage the collective wisdom and influence of sorority women to support entities around the world that remove educational barriers for girls and women, uplifting them from poverty and oppression.

Below is a video of "Why the Circle of Sisterhood?" 

After all of our success we invited Ginny Carroll, founder of Circle of Sisterhood, to speak at our school. At the event almost 100 Panhellenic women came to hear her speak and at the end we presented her with a check for $11,800, making USC the highest fundraising school for CofS.

Sorority Council with Ginny Carroll

Since then, Sorority Council initiated a new program for all members of USC Greek Life to get involved with Circle of Sisterhood. The Circle of Sisterhood Committee is filled with 15 members all from different chapters. The committee held their first awareness fundraiser this past week with a table on the main street of our campus on Valentines Day. They passed out facts about why Circle of Sisterhood exists and sold doughnuts raising over $50 in mostly change. The committee also went to each chapter with a presentation of what the Circle of Sisterhood Committee plans to do on our campus and why everyone should be involved. While they were at each chapter they passed around a bucket and left it at the houses for a week. The group expects to raise over $200 from this “Change for Change” event. They have many other ideas on ways to involve the community but are just getting started at this beginning of this semester.

Circle of Sisterhood Commitee