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Chartered at the University of Maryland: April 12, 1976
National founding date: November 22, 1922
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Chapter email: [email protected]
The founders sought to create an organization which offered teachers an opportunity for fellowship and professional growth. They dreamed of a legacy, which promoted the ideas of greater service and achievement through higher education. Its purpose is expressed in its slogan "Greater Service, Greater Progress," indicating that service to the community is the organization's highest priority.
National Projects include:
-The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
-National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW)
-March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
-National Mental Health Association
-National Urban League
-United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
-Assault on Illiteracy Program (AOIP)
-Africare-Project
-Mwanamugimu
-Black Woman's Agenda
Responsibility, stability, discipline, purpose and self-respect set the level of scholastic expectancy for the chapter members and prospects. Collective striving for these qualities of character remains at the foundation of the women of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated.
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Official colors: Royal Blue and Gold
Official motto: Greater Service, Greater Progress
Founding values: Education of youth, community service, leadership development
Philanthropic cause: Operation Big Bookbag, Project Reassurance, Project Wee Sowers
Major events: Sigma Week
Prominent members: MC Lyte, Anna Marie Horseford, Rev. Willie T. Barrow, Vanessa Bell Armstrong