Alpha Phi – helping in the fight against the number one killer of women: Heart Disease.
Alpha Phi’s philanthropic causes are The Alpha Phi Foundation and the Cardiac Care unit at Rockingham Memorial Hospital. Alpha Phi is affiliated with the American Heart Association’s Red Dress campaign.
The Alpha Phi Foundation, founded in 1956, was established eighty-four years after the Fraternity. The Foundation, in fact, is a separate organization from the Fraternity and has its own officers, staff, and board of directors. The Foundation was seen then, and is seen now, as being necessary to plan for the Fraternity of tomorrow. The Fraternity and the Foundation work hand in hand.
To those ends, the Alpha Phi Foundation supports educational and leadership programs, offers scholarships, assists women in crisis, recognizes outstanding cardiac care and research programs, supports community organizations, and awards outstanding college professors.
The Foundation is able to continue its programs through the voluntary contributions from Alpha Phi members and chapters, friends of Alpha Phi, and matching gifts from donors’ employers.
Alpha Phi has donated over a million hours of volunteer service and raised and contributed over $2.25 million for heart projects since 1946.
Alpha Phi is the only organization that has twice recieved the American Heart Association's highest award, “The Heart and Torch Award.”