Mu Tau Mu of Alpha Chi Omega

This week we encourage all Alpha Chi Omega sisters to learn more about and support Click to Empower. Please participate in their “Click to Empower Campaign.” The organization with the most votes as of September 13, 2009, will get a $100,000 grant!

The goal of Click to Empower is to promote financial independence for domestic violence survivors. We’d like you to make your own decision about which organization to vote for. There are four choices – Charity Cars, Family Justice Centers, Safe Horizon, and YWCA. Once on the site, you can even connect your vote directly to your facebook page!

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MacDowell Colony was Alpha Chi Omega's first philanthropy and one that we continue to be proud to support! "The MacDowell Colony nurtures the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which to produce enduring works of the imagination."

Here are some summer reading suggestions from the August 6th MacDowell e-newsletter:

Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal by MacDowell Fellow Julie Metz

A Short History of Women: A Novel

This week we're learning how we can support local Alpha Chi Omega chapters as they work to raise funds and awareness in the fight against domestic violence. See http://ow.ly/j0lu to learn more, and then help us spread the word!

On Twitter, post a message like this:

Please support local Alpha Chi Omega chapters working to end domestic violence http://ow.ly/j0lu #charitytuesday #axo

And follow @AXCouture

On facebook,

Post a link the Tau Art Auction facebook event - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102559274623

And/or

Post a link to the Alpha Chi Couture facebook fan page

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alpha-Chi-Couture/94053643828?ref=search

3. On email, send a link to this post (http://ow.ly/j0nQ ) and ask your friends to participate!

Thank you!!

Does your chapter have plans to fundraise this fall for domestic violence awareness? Are you holding a public event to raise awareness? We’d like to highlight your efforts. Here are two events that are great examples of using social media to get the word out:

Tau chapter is having an Art Auction November 9, 2006 in Gainesville, Georgia.

* Find out about the event and how you can help (no matter where you live) on the Tau Alumnae Chapter blog post - http://axotaualum.squarespace.com/news-from-campus/2009/7/28/alpha-chi-omega-in-the-fight-against-domestic-violence.html

* RSVP for the event on facebook - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102559274623

* Become a fan of Tau chapter on facebook to be invited to future events –

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alpha-Chi-Omega-Tau/102807638665?ref=search

Alpha Chi Couture Fashion Show and Silent Auction is September 25, 2009 in Dallas, Texas.

* Learn more about the event and how you can help at http://www.alphachicouture.com/

* Become a fan of Alpha Chi Couture on facebook –

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alpha-Chi-Couture/94053643828?ref=search

* Follow @AXCouture on Twitter!!

* Stay tuned - we’ll be highlighting this great event the week of September 21^st!

If your group has a domestic violence awareness event planned for 2009-2010, please comment below with the date, name of event and your chapter (please participate even if you don’t have a website, blog or facebook group yet!). Thank you!

Oncologist Smitha Subramanyan Krishnamurthi, MD (ZU '86) appears occasionally on Cleveland's ABC affiliate WEWS-TV as one of their Health Experts. In the video below, she explains what you can expect from a colonoscopy.

Smitha received her undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University and her MD from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a physician at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. As a collegian, Smitha served as Vice President - Education.