The Real. Strong. Women.
® Experience provides structured programming and a community environment that empowers women to take on issues and challenges that help them live as real, strong women. By helping sisters reach their full potential, the Real. Strong. Women. Experience provides endless possibilities to discover their most authentic self and use that to change the world.
How will your Real. Strong. Women. Experience shape you?
Looking to the future
While there is uncertainty today, we still have the everlasting connections of real, strong women through Alpha Chi Omega. We want our members to know that we are looking to the future to ensure our organization is prepared for the various scenarios that a “new normal” might entail. This includes exploring recruitment models, online new member education, membership programming, dues and more for the fall and beyond. We will continue to keep our membership informed on the work of the national project dedicated to these efforts. Additionally, Alpha Chi Omega recently shared our response efforts with the fraternal industry.
Read more here.
In this time when virtual connection is critical, make sure Alpha Chi Omega has the most updated contact information for you. For graduating seniors, it’s especially important to update your email from your .edu address to your current email as well as to update your physical address!
We are all experiencing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in different ways; yet through it all, we still have the everlasting connections of real, strong women.
See how sisters are supporting each other in a time when our experience looks different than we thought it would.
We would love to hear your COVID-19 story. You can share by filling out
this form.
To Support Your best self
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Relax with our coloring sheets
Celebrate Alpha Chi Omega’s history and heritage with these
exclusive coloring pages. They are the perfect activity for sisters and families. Tag @AlphaChiOmegaHQ when you complete your masterpieces so we can admire your work!
make Professional connections
Visit the
LinkedIn job board for opportunities shared by sisters.
Alumnae and collegians can also join the
Women & Wisdom mentoring program to make a mentoring relationship that will provide you advice, guidance and friendship.
Join other lifelong members in the
Alpha Chi Omega Connection Facebook group - a place for any and all things Alpha Chi Omega!
Learn more about alpha chi omega
The history website is specially designed to bring Alpha Chi Omega’s history to life. See photographs and items, recently discovered in storage boxes, that have never been on display. Discover the similarities of US history and Alpha Chi Omega history through the interactive timeline. Want to know what collegiate life was like back in the 1930s? Check out the section dedicated to hosting every single Lyre issue produced up to 2018.
Connecting is easy when you can reach out and hold on to your sisters, when you can see their faces to know if they need encouragement, a laugh or a strong cup of coffee. It’s when we’re not in the same room – whether that’s across campus or across the country – that connecting becomes an intentional act and takes on new meaning.
By sharing our stories, we create a network of Alpha Chi Omegas. We learn of the similarities that draw us together and the differences that make each of us a unique chord in the symphony of sisterhood. Read about your sisters' stories, share your own or simply connect with Alpha Chi today!
Social media and our website help connect us, but there's nothing quite the same as getting the new issue of The Lyre magazine in the mail.
The Lyre is available to Alpha Chi Omega alumnae as part of the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation’s donor communications strategy. Members can receive
The Lyre through cumulative gifts to the Foundation at the Foundation’s Life Loyal Roll level. Find more information on the
Life Loyal Roll page.
Read with sisters in our Alumnae Book Club
Alpha Chi Omega hosts an online book club just for alumnae! To sign up for the book club, join our Facebook group,
AXO Alumnae Book Club. Each month, we will read a new book and have a virtual discussion.
Learn more here.
Attend a sisterhood event
One of the best ways Alpha Chi Omega can support you is by helping you build relationships and connections to sisters across the country. Members and/or chapters might consider hosting an event to connect and celebrate our sisterhood, virtually now and in-person later. Collegiate and alumnae chapters are already hosting creative events to engage members and have fun with sisters. Alpha Chi Omega is curating a list of these events.
Submit your event details and we will work to get them
posted online here for sisters to find open-invite events to attend! We hope this helps sisters meet other Alpha Chi Omegas, even during this time of social distancing.
If your sisterhood event is virtual - or you just want to use these to show your support and love for Alpha Chi - download one of our Alpha Chi Omega Zoom backgrounds, available
here.
Take part in LGBTQ Pride month
June is LGBTQ Pride Month! The month-long celebration demonstrates how LGBTQ Americans have strengthened our country, by using their talent and creativity to help create awareness and goodwill. Pride Month is celebrated each year in June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. Check out more about the month
here. And stay tuned to our social media throughout the month where we will celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month!
The Women & Wisdom series is an extension of our mentoring program, offering virtual opportunities for personal and professional development. Join us to explore relevant career advancement topics and hear from accomplished women leaders!
Join our upcoming Resiliency panel
Quarterly, Alpha Chi Omega hosts online trainings for all volunteers through our Golden Key series. This month, all alumnae were invited to the Golden Key webinar. Alumnae joined a panel of volunteers from across the Alpha Chi Omega Enterprise as they reflected and discussed resiliency habits and ways they could develop resiliency too!
Make Recruitment recommendations
Now more than ever, we need your help promoting the Alpha Chi Omega experience. Collegiate chapters across the country are planning for recruitment in the fall and looking to alumnae to recommend outstanding women for membership. The sooner our chapters have information about potential new members through the online recommendation form, the better!
Join us to learn more about preparing your legacy or recommending potential new members on
our upcoming training on June 11.
Join the sister outreach team
Alpha Chi Omega needs your help in reaching members across the country.
Sign up for a short-term volunteer role (May – July) by joining the Sister Outreach Team today and further your bonds of sisterhood!
Attend the town hall
National President Angela Costley Harris and Chief Executive Officer Katie Lampinen Gaffin shared updates regarding Alpha Chi Omega's response to COVID-19 and highlights of the work in progress to establish our "new normal" on May 26.
If you weren't able to join us, click below to view the recording!
Celebrate sisters at the #axoSeniorSendoff
On Tuesday, May 12 our #AXOSeniorSendOff was led by National President Angela Costley Harris. We took to Instagram Live to celebrate and recognize our seniors from chapters across the country. Check out the video below to hear from our special guests and affirm your commitment to the lifelong bond of Alpha Chi Omega.
Additional Resources
As we collectively navigate social distancing, we must continue to build community and create lasting connections within our sisterhood. This facilitation guide was developed to enhance volunteer team virtual calls by providing ways to build community through connection and shared experiences while navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. These tips, tricks and resources can be applied beyond volunteer roles, however, to all areas of your professional and personal life.
We have also created some
fillable e-cards for you to send a carnation to a senior or a note to a sister just because you're thinking of her!
Check out our calendar of upcoming dates, events and activities!
June