BULLETIN BOARD VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Volunteer with Empowering Youth Through Travel!

The Chicago non-profit works with inner-city youth to expose them about foreign cultures, enhance their international awareness, and give them the opportunity to travel. The organization is in its first year, and you will have the opportunity to make a BIG impact! Email Jennifer if you would like to get involved.

Chicago Cares - www.chicagocares.org
Make-A-Wish - www.wishes.org
PAWS - www.pawschicago.org
*If you are interested in the above volunteer opportunities, please contact Maggie.

Chicago Red Cross - "Flirting for Disaster" events
*If you are interested in the above volunteer opportunity, please contact Nicole.

Chicago Lights Tutoring Program - They are looking for tutors for the school year for Monday - Thursday nights, 6 - 7:30.  You can pick whatever night you want and what age student you want. Contact Alex Cornall.

--If you have a volunteer opportunity that you would like to post on our Bulletin Board, please contact Rachel. 

BULLETIN BOARD ANNOUNCEMENTS

CHI OMEGA LOOKING FOR A ROOMMATE
Nicole Brackert is a graduate from UCLA (Rho Beta Chapter). She will be moving to Chicago in September to start working at an accounting firm, PriceWaterhouseCoopers. She is looking for a roommate or other recent Chi Omega graduates in the Chicago area looking for an additional roommate. 
E-mail: nicolebrackert@ucla.edu

CHI OMEGA LOOKING FOR JOB IN MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS/PR
Megan Rhoads is a Chi Omega alumna from the Tau delta chapter at Gettysburg College (2008). She is looking to relocate to the Chicago area from Baltimore and searching for a job in marketing, communications, or public relations. If you know of any opportunities in those fields and might be in assistance to her job search, please reach out to her.
E-mail: megan.rhoads@gmail.com

CHI OMEGA LOOKING FOR JOB IN COMMUNICATIONS
Emily Kornegay is a member of Rho chapter at Tulane University. She recently completed graduate school at Villanova University and have a Master of Arts in Communication. She relocated to Chicago at the end of July and is interested in finding job in the field of communications, particularly in public relations, marketing, consulting, or event planning. She would love to learn more about any potential career opportunities.
E-mail: emily.kornegay1@gmail.com

3RD ANNUAL SEALED WITH A WISH BACHELOR AUCTION
Thanks to everyone's hard work and those who attended this years Sealed with a Wish Bachelor Auction! We were able to raise over $6,000 and will be granting another wish this year! Thank you for all the help with the silent auction, paddles, website, flyers, PR, logistics, bachelors, and countless other tasks you all took on! A huge thank you goes out to Heather Frank for her incredible work on putting together another successful event! Thank you, also, to all of our sponsors and silent auction donators! We couldn't have done it without you!

For pictures of the event, please visit www.chiodateauction.com.

Brick at Chi Omega Executive Headquarters in Memphis:
The Downtown Chicago Chi Omega Alumnae Chapter now has a brick in the Myth Garden at the Chi Omega Executive Headquarters in Memphis. This brick is in honor of the awards we won during the 2008 convention. Please stop by to take a look if you are visiting headquarters!

Chi Omega Alum Open Art Studio in Uptown, Chicago, IL
A Chi Omega Alum, Sarah Raskey, has created an inspirational art video and cross country road trip to raise funds for an open art studio. The art studio is open and free to all and services many homeless, mentally ill and recovering substance abuse users in Chicago. Please visit http://srgivinggallery.com for more information.

Chi Omega Alum has Volunteer Opportunities
Kristi Bruno, Iowa State Alum, works for a non-profit, Junior Achievement, which is an organization with the mission of educating and inspiring young people to succeed in a global economy.  We are looking for volunteers to present JA programs to students throughout the Chicago area (city and burbs) on the topics of financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship.  Many Chi Os are community minded and might be interested in learning about volunteer opportunities.  Please contact Kristi at kbruno@jachicago.org for more information.

We have a new Regional Alumnae Director:
Congratulations to our own Maggie Ross Abramson, who is now the Regional Alumnae Director for the Great Lakes area. RADs provides assistance in alumnae development efforts by promoting lifelong commitment to Chi Omega and its traditions, and Maggie will oversee the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. This is a very prestigious volunteer position, and we are really proud of our own exec board membership chair for securing it! Hoot! Hoot! 

Cookie Exchange Recipe Book:
If you missed our 2008 cookie exchange, click here to download the recipe book.

Keep your 2009 resolution by shopping at a discount!: 
Everyone loves a sale! Get 15% off your first order with Chi O Ellie Martin, an independent Mary Kay beauty consultant. She offers free shipping and the sale lasts indefinitely! Please contact Ellie if you are interested or visit marykay.com/ellie and enter Chi O in the comment box. 

Chi Omega bath/body products--buy and/or sell them!: If you're interested in Chi O bath and body products, check out Not Soap Radio, a licensed vendor who donates a portion of of the sales back to Chi Omega! They're giving 30% off all first-time orders, so enter Greek at checkout for the discount if you're interested! They're looking for alumnae sales reps as well, commission + salary, so contact Laura C if interested. 

Congrats to our own executive board/committee members!: 
Thanks to the hard work and dedication of our executive board and dedicated committee members, our chapter came home from Convention 2008 with not one but TWO alumnae chapter awards! We won an award for our participation in the 2007 Elusinian event with the four other area alumnae chapters. We also won an award for Sisterhood, regarding our relationships with both the Rho Mu chapter at DePaul and the Xi chapter at Northwestern. This is no doubt thanks to our many chapter members who serve in advisory positions with both undergraduate chapters, as well as those of us who volunteer and attend social, philanthropic and sisterhood events with or in support of these chapters. Congratulations ladies!

Doggie Playdates: 
If you have a pup and you'd like to join other Chi Os for organized doggie playdates at local dog parks/beaches, e-mail Stacey to be added to the e-mail list. The plan is to arrange some dates for Saturday mornings or Sunday afternoons. 

Exercise Buddies: 
We're finalizing a list of interested Chi Os by neighborhood/interests/ gyms before organizing some runs and walks along the lake and in neighborhoods. E-mail Stacey if you would like to be added to the list!

If you have anything you would like listed in our new bulletin board section, please send it to Rachel, and include any pertinent information, along with contact information.