P.U.L.S.E.
For more than 50 years, the Sigma Kappa Foundation has supported Sigma Kappa Sorority. With a unity of purpose, our Foundation has played and continues to play a crucial role in the growth and success of Sigma Kappa, providing the lifeblood of financial resources to keep our Sorority vital and healthy.
Philanthropic Initiatives
Unrestricted Gifts
Leadership Development
Sisters in Need
Education
PULSE is not just a way of presenting our priorities; it’s our commitment to Sigma Kappa.
Simply stated, we must make the heart of our Sorority strong enough to beat for generations to come.
And that will take a commitment of giving and a strong PULSE.
PHILANTHROPIC INITIATIVES
Support Alzheimer’s & gerontology research
and the Maine Sea Coast Mission
• Since making Alzheimer’s a focus of its gerontology program in 1984, Sigma Kappa has become one of the nation’s leading contributors to Alzheimer’s disease prevention, research, and treatment efforts. Sigma Kappa has granted over $2 million in research and other grants to investigators and practitioners combating this epidemic.
• Sigma Kappa’s 1918 convention chose the Maine Sea Coast Mission as our first national philanthropy in honor of Sigma Kappa’s founding in Maine. Our relationship with the Mission shines as the longest continuous philanthropic partnership between a fraternal organization and a charity and represents an enduring local legacy for Sigma Kappa.
SISTERS IN NEED
Support sisters through the Alumnae Heart Fund
and Sister to Sister Disaster Recovery Fund
• In response to the back-to-back hurricanes that ravaged the Gulf Coast in late summer 2005, the Sigma Kappa Foundation established the Sister to Sister Disaster Recovery Fund. Today, the Sister to Sister Disaster Recovery Fund assists alumnae and collegiate members of Sigma Kappa who find themselves in financial distress due to the occurrence of a U.S. presidential-declared major disaster or emergency.
• The Alumnae Heart Fund is designed to provide assistance to aid alumnae who find themselves facing financial distress, emergency or crisis through aging, medical, natural disaster, or other severe personal or family problems.
UNRESTRICTED GIFTS
Meet the emerging and changing needs
of our organization and membership
• Sigma Kappa Foundation provides support to sisters by responding to the emerging needs of college and alumnae women, but we also have ongoing and unexpected needs that cannot be anticipated. That is why unrestricted gifts are so important – they go to work immediately.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Continuing to invest in the enhancement of the
Leadership Consultant Program
• Our goal is to assure the continuation of this critical program that provides much needed, on-the-ground assistance to chapters nationwide, while providing sister consultants with work experience and professional development and growth.
EDUCATION
Awarding academic scholarships and opportunities
for values based programming
• More than 50 scholarships are provided by the Foundation to encourage and support the scholastic development of our collegiate and alumnae sisters. Since 1989, the Foundation has awarded more than $600,000 in scholarships.
• The Sigma Kappa Foundation offers scholarships for Sigma Kappa collegiate members to attend the Undergraduate Inter fraternity Institute (UIFI) using donations from new 1874 Giving Circle memberships.