Mu Tau Mu of Alpha Chi Omega

Now through the end of July show your love for Alpha Chi Omega by participating in our "Alpha Chi Omegas on Twitter" Foundation contest.

Move up the ranks on the Hall of Fame of the AXO Foundation Cause to get a chance at great prizes – on July 31^st

>if you have risen to the top 10 in any of the 3 categories (Recruiters, Donors, Fundraisers), you’ll have 10 chances to win

>if you have risen to the top 11-20, you will have 5 chances to win (per category)

>if you have risen to the top 21-50, you will have 3 chances to win (per category)

>join the Hall of Fame for the first time for a chance to win.

Double your chances of winning (turn your 10 chances into 20!!) by doing at least ONE of the following:

>tweet publicly about the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Cause between 7/13 and 7/31/09.

>blog about the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Cause between 7/13 and 7/31/09 (email a link to your blog post to Estelle.Leonard.AXO@gmail.com to be eligible)

>comment on the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Cause Comments Board between 7/13 and 7/31/09 telling us how Alpha Chi Omega Foundation has impacted your life or your chapter; or why you support Alpha Chi Omega Foundation.

Prizes! There will be multiple prizes, and you’ll have your choice including Amazon.com gift cards, donations made in your name to Foundation, and Alpha Chi Omega apparel. Look for more on all the prizes on Tuesday, July 21^st.

Rules and Judging: All US citizens are eligible to participate, except where prohibited by federal, state or local law. This contest is just for fun.

Sunday, July 12^th we printed out the complete Hall of Fame from the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation page. On Saturday, August 1^st we’ll print it again and compare the two lists to see who has joined and risen in the ranks. Give us a few days to certify the results! We will assign each entry a number; winners will be chosen at random by the random number generator at random.org.

All decisions from the judges are final. Have fun and thank you for participating!

Start here: Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Cause

Are you and your friends fans of Alpha Chi Omega? http://www.facebook.com/alphachiomegahq

Did you know that you can support Alpha Chi Omega Foundation (and thus Alpha Chi Omega) using the Causes application on Facebook? Through the Birthdays feature, you can even celebrate your big day in a meaningful way.

Aggie Steiner, Alpha Chi extraordinaire, really enjoyed the extra joy that came from including Alpha Chi Omega Foundation as part of her birthday celebration in March. Many thanks to her for sharing her experience with us. We hope you'll be as moved by her comments as we are.

The set-up was really easy. I received an "ask" from the Facebook Causes application that allowed me to set-uprequests for my upcoming birthday to support one of my chosen causes. (So it is necessary that both applications - cause and Birthday Reminders be engaged on someone's Facebook page).The dollar per year seemed a reasonable amount to request. If I were younger, I would have asked for $5 or $10.

My only short-lived trepidation was, did I really want to tell the world that I was turning 61? Twenty-one friends accepted my challenge to total $1040. I matched $860 to make it $2000 total. The really great news is that 2-3 donors were first-time givers to the Foundation and I reconnected with 5 sisters with whom I had lost current contact. Obviously, I was both thrilled and honored!

I definitely think others should do this, whether it is for a birthday or other special occasion. What about celebrating the anniversary of an AX initation date or college graduation date? Donating this way was easy for me and just as easy for the donors. Everything was handled on-line.The initial ask was posted on my Facebook page banner. I also selected from my friends list. Payment was handled through pay-pal by clicking on a "Donate Now" button. And, I was notified by Facebook when a donation was made so I could send out thank yous.

Be sure to join the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Facebook Cause today! http://apps.facebook.com/causes/73662/14218508?m=edd8a396

Sample birthday celebration on Causes is here:http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/01/facebook-birthday-causes-more-learnings-thanks-yous-1124-raised.html

(Adrie on right)Nice article on student scientists includes May 2009 graduate Adrienne who is a 2007 initiate of Zeta Upsilon chapter of Alpha Chi Omega at Case Western Reserve University: http://www.case.edu/artsci/artsciS09/thinking.html

This week, we are excited to celebrate the appointment of the first-ever White House Advisor on Violence Against Women! We look forward to getting to know the amazing woman, Lynn Rosenthal, chosen to take on this important job.

Help us spread the word! Here’s how:

1. On Twitter, post a message like this:

GREAT news: Lynn Rosenthal is 1st-ever White House Advisor on Violence Against Women!! http://bit.ly/2wB6GX #charitytuesday #axo

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Meet 1st-ever White House Advisor on Violence Against Women! http://bit.ly/2wB6GX #charitytuesday #axo #domesticviolence

2. On facebook, post this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI6TS1zWuTI#t=17m51s

Along with the link you could say something like this:

Meet the first-ever White House Advisor on Violence Against Women! Learn more about her at http://bit.ly/2wB6GX

--OR--

On June 26^th VP Biden announced Lynn Rosenthal as the first-ever White House Advisor on Violence Against Women. It brings me such hope to have a long-time domestic violence advocate in a position of national importance! See http://bit.ly/2wB6GX to learn more about her.

Here's a sample:

3. On email, send a link to this post (http://ow.ly/gBfI) and ask your friends to participate... or just copy and paste this post into your email!

Thanks!

Amazing News!! On Friday, June 26, 2009, Vice President Biden announced the appointment of Lynn Rosenthal as the first-ever White House Advisor on Violence Against Women.

Video of Ms. Rosenthal acceptance of the appointment (skip ahead to 17:45 for her remarks):

As White House Advisor, Ms. Rosenthal will:

• serve as an advisor to the President and Vice President on domestic violence and sexual assault issues;
• be a liaison to the domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy community;
• coordinate with the Department of Justice’s Office of Violence Against Women (OVW) on implementation of Violence Against Women Act programs;
• coordinate with the Department of Health and Human Services on implementation of Family Violence Prevention Act services (including the National Domestic Violence Hotline);
• coordinate with the State Department and USAID on global domestic violence initiatives;
• and drive the development new initiatives and policy aimed at combating domestic violence and sexual assault with advocacy groups and members of Congress.

She brings thirty years of experience to the job, from working on the national level where she served six years as the Executive Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, to state-wide positions at the Florida and New Mexico Coalitions Against Domestic Violence, to her start in fighting domestic violence at the local level as the Executive Director of the Refuge House in Tallahassee, Florida. Ms. Rosenthal is an alumnus of Florida State University.

"President Obama and Vice President Biden could not have named a more qualified, visionary leader to advise the White House on violence against women," said Sue Else, President of the National Network to End Domestic Violence

Let the President know you applaud efforts to fight domestic violence, online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ or write to 

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20500

(please include your email address in correspondence)