Community Service
(The DXP Database of Volunteer Opportunities Around Hopkins and Baltimore)
Current Involvement
Village Learning Place: Village Learning Place is a community run and supported library in the Charles Village area in Baltimore. It provides after school programs and enrichment for neighborhood children in the Baltimore City school system. Delta Xi Phi is running sessions during the after school program in which several of the sisters promote cultural awareness in the children by teaching them about a different country.
American Cancer Society's Relay for Life: For the past three years at Hopkins, Delta Xi Phi has participated in the Relay for Life on the upper Quad. Once a year, members circle the upper quad for twelve hours, to raise money for cancer research. Last year, Delta Xi Phi raised $565 for American Cancer Society through Relay for Life.
American Cancer Society's Daffodil Days: This past spring, Delta Xi Phi helped Johns Hopkins University raise $3,600 through their Spring 2006 Daffodil Days Sale. This sale lasts for two days in March, in which sisters, faculty and staff sold daffodils throughout campus to raise money for ACS.
American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer: For the past three years, Delta Xi Phi has participated in Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, a walk that takes place in the fall that raises money for cancer research.
The Book Thing: This semester, Delta Xi Phi has started volunteering a few Saturdays a semester at the Book Thing, a free book "store" in Baltimore. The sisters help stamp, sort, and shelf books so that they can be available for people in the community.
Past Involvement
Jingle Bell Walk/Run for Arthritis: Delta Xi Phi's founding line participated in this early morning run to raise money for the search towards a cure for arthritis.
Port Discovery: Port Discovery is a children's museum of learning, adventure, and discovery located in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Sisters have helped to teach children games from around the world, Russian art, and Egyptian history.
Habitat for Humanity. Our chapter worked with Johns Hopkins University's Habitat for Humanity on an abandoned house in an inner city Baltimore neighborhood. Our work helped to refurbish the house which Habitat for Humanity will later provide to a low-income family who would otherwise not be able to afford decent housing.