Secondary Source 1

         For my first secondary source I wanted to find something that had to do with the charities and community service, and show why Greek life is such a big contributor to different charities. While researching, I came across an article written by Holly Hall that talked about Red Cross and the funding of red cross.
         Before I describe the article, I'll tell you why I chose to research about Red Cross. As I stated before in my photo essay, the fraternity Delta Sigma Phi's philanthropy is Red Cross. This means that every philanthropy that Delta Sigma Phi hosts, all the money goes to Red Cross. I decided to look up the funding for Red Cross and I found out that they were struggling a bit. In the article, it says that the Red Cross foundation has been through a financial rollercoaster the past fifteen years. The foundation will raise approximately $1-2 billion right after disasters, such as the terrorist attack on September 11th, or Hurricane Katrina. However, if a disaster does not happen, then Red Cross struggles to raise money. Since Red Cross was struggling to raise money, they had a fairly large deficit which was about $130 million in June 2009. In the article, it also states that Red Cross spends around $550 million on campaigns for the organization (Hall 7).
           The reason that this article is important for my project is to show that charities throughout the world are in need of a lot of help with funding. Red Cross is not the only organization struggling, a good amount of them are, I just decided to talk about Red Cross specifically since I went to that philanthropy event. These charities are very helpful to others, such as Red Cross always helping those in need, and I think that it is important to give back as much as we can since a lot of us don't realize how good we have it. For this reason, I think that it is important for people to get involved in Greek life, because it is a lot more than just "paying for friends and parties." If more people get involved, that means more money will be raised for these charities in need of funds in order to do their best to help everyone that they can.

Hall, Holly. "Red Cross Retools Its Fund Raising to Overcome a Troubled Financial Picture."   
       Chronicle of Philanthropy 22 (2009): 7. Web. 20 October 2015.