The Service Committee is headed by the Vice Presidents of Service. In the Gamma Pi chapter, all active members participate in a minimum of four projects every semester, totaling at least twenty hours of service. Students pledging our chapter must complete a minimum of sixteen hours of service.

Alpha Phi Omega's service program is four-fold: our projects provide service to the campus, service to the community, service to the chapter (and APO as an organization), and service to the nation. We acheive this goal by providing a wide variety of projects. Some of our most popular projects are:

• UM vs. OSU Blood Battle- a competition between the chapters of APO at Ohio State and University of Michigan. Each chapter tries to collect the most blood in the two weeks before the UM-OSU football game. This drive, as well as many other drives APO sponsors throughout the year, collects desperately needed blood for the American Red Cross.
• Knitwits - Hand sewing mittens, hats and more for those who would otherwise go without.
• SWAT Hunger - plan, prepare, and serve a meal once a month in coordination with the Ann Arbor Hunger Coalition.
• Info Stops - plan, set up, and staff information tables around campus during freshman orientation to answer questions and give directions.
• Ronald McDonald House - plan, prepare, and serve meals to residents at the Ronald McDonald House. The Ronald McDonald House provides a place to stay for parents with children hospitalized in Motts' Children's Hospital.
• Head Start - provide child care for Head Start, a Washtenaw County education program.
• SEED - prepare lessons on simple subjects (time, weather, the body) to present to underprivledged elementary school students in Detroit.
• Food Gatherers - volunteering at a food-rescue/food bank organization which aims to combat hunger in the Ann Arbor area.
• Student Book Exchange - volunteer for a student-run service for students to buy and sell books from one another, for better prices than offered by the book store.

Also, APO usually participates in:

• Dance Marathon - a thirty-hour dance party, held to raise money for childrens' hospitals in the community.
• The Detroit Project - an organization that coordinates and carries out service projects in downtown Detroit.

Other organizations APO works with: Arbor Hospice, Perry Nursery School, the Boy/Girl Scouts, Riverside Arts Center, UHS, Glacier Hills Nursing Home, HERO of Washtenaw County, the Museum of Natural History, and the VA Hospital.

To look at the service projects and other activities planned for this month and others, click here.