National Programs
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., is fully committed to assisting those in need and improving communities around the globe.
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority works in partnership with national support organizations, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), The National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), the National Urban League, The United Negro College Fund (UNCF), and many others.
Since 1922, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. has substantially impacted nationally and abroad. The Sorority has a proud history of offering service wherever chapters exist under the organization’s signature program, Project Reassurance. Through active participation in programs and networking with other organizations such as the National Council of Negro Women, Urban League, and the NAACP, Sigma’s legacy of service to improve the quality of life for all continues. Sigma Gamma Rho’s global service includes Project Africa and Project Mwanamgimu.
Operation Big Bookbag
Women’s Wellness Initiative
Swim 1922
Project CRADLE Care
Annual Youth Symposium
Operation Big BookBag is a program designed to address the needs, challenges, and issues facing educationally at-risk school-aged children in local homeless shelters and extended-care hospitals and facilities. Through this program, chapters and members collect and donate educational materials, equipment, and school supplies.
The Women’s Wellness Initiative is a consolidated effort that allows chapters to focus on health issues that impact women, specifically women of color. Educational and programmatic efforts under this Initiative include, but are not limited to, Breast Cancer Awareness, Intimate and Domestic Violence, Heart Health, Diabetes Health, Mental Health, and other issues that target women.
Through the partnership with USA Swimming, Sigma Gamma Rho’s Swim 1922 campaign aims to address this disparity by having Olympians and sorority members teach the community about water safety and how to swim. With USA Swimming, Sigma Gamma Rho has touched close to 20,000 lives directly, with the projection of changing multiple generations to come.
Project CRADLE Care is one of our essential programs designed to raise awareness of disparate and inequitable maternal and infant health outcomes Black women endure through community outreach, advocacy, education, and implicit bias training. In so doing, we aim to mitigate outcome and life-course disparities in our communities.
The Symposium highlights some prevalent concerns that negatively impact our youth (drugs, teen violence, abuse, low self-esteem, suicide, teen pregnancy, human trafficking, etc.).
