PGM
International Honor Society in Social Sciences
The mission of Pi Gamma Mu is to encourage and promote excellence in the social sciences and to uphold the ideals of scholarship and service.

CHAPTERS IN ACTION

At University of Nebraska at Omaha, the Nebraska Epsilon chapter gathered materials for a local low-income housing facility occupied mostly by recent refugees from Sudan. They gathered a substantial quantity of household supplies, personal care items, childcare items, and school supplies.

The Philippine Alpha chapter at University of the Philippines reactivated its professorial chair, known as the Pi Gamma Mu Professorial Chair. They plan to award one thesis and one dissertation grant per year to a graduate student.

At the Massachusetts Delta chapter at Wheelock College, they created 75 birthday gift bags for a local homeless shelter in Boston. The bags contained pencils, temporary tattoos, joke books, bubbles, and more. The bags were kept in a storage room at a shelter so that parents can give their children a present on their birthdays. They worked with other organizations on campus to provide five families and over 10 children with gifts for the holiday season. We encouraged staff, students, and organizations to spin "the giving wheel" that would land on a wish list item for a child. They collected clothes, toys and more for local families in Boston. They created new crayons from melted old crayons to be sold for profit by an organization that will benefit oncology units of hospitals. They collected over $600 for an organization called Music for Haiti by orchestrating a yard sale using objects from students' dorm rooms. They donated all the remaining items to a local homeless shelter. In addition to those projects, they completed three community service events per semester including events such as: reading to preschool children, creating cards for soldiers overseas, working with Make-A-Wish, participating in charity walks, and volunteering in local food banks.

The Georgia Kappa chapter at North Georgia College & State University participated in the Kiva micro-loan project. The Council of Honor Societies has maintained a $250 fund, which is used to partially fund 10 micro-loans to foreign entrepreneurs at any given time. (As an entrepreneur repays her loan, they then commit the $25 portion to a new applicant.) The Georgia Kappa chapter provided 60 percent of the $250 fund.

The Louisiana Eta chapter at Grambling State University has been engaged in fulfilling the seven ideals of Pi Gamma Mu. These activities have mainly reflected service, research, scholarship, and professional involvement. They researched and gave presentations on aging and longevity, health care reform, health care disparities at the Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists, the University of Kentucky-Summer Series on Aging, and the Mid-South Sociological Association. Their community services included flower distribution of flowers on Mother's and Father's Day at Princeton Long-term Care Facility. They chapter distributed Easter baskets and teddy bears to hospitalized children. Recrutied faculty, staff and community members to be pledged sponsors of Project BEAP (Black Empowerment Apprenticeship Program). These sponsors will be donating a minimum of $500 over a five year period for school supplies, stipends, and scholarships for at-risk children and youth.

This chapter placed flags in the Grambling community cemetery on Memorial Day. They have an ongoing preservation and beautification of the cemetery where the founder of Grambling State University is buried. They had a Fall Sock drive for residents of the Veterans Home in Monroe, LA. They involved the BEAP youth in data collection in the nursing home and the cemetery.

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