National Panhellenic Conference

rdf:langString National Panhellenic Conference

rdf:langString NPC

rdf:langString Logo for the National Panhellenic Conference

rdf:langString Carmel, IN 46032

rdf:langString A stylized green shield with a genie-style lamp on top. The shield is surrounded on the other three sides by a scrolled banner starting on the left side, going counterclockwise with the NPC's name printed one word per side.

rdf:langString National Panhellenic Congress

rdf:langString The National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) is an umbrella organization for 26 (inter)national women's sororities throughout the United States and Canada. Each member group is autonomous as a social, Greek-letter society of college women and alumnae. The National Panhellenic Conference provides guidelines and resources for its members and serves as the national voice on contemporary issues of sorority life. Founded in 1902, NPC is one of the oldest and largest women's membership organizations, representing more than 4 million women at over 650 college/university campuses and 4,600 local alumnae chapters in the U.S. and Canada. Each year, NPC-affiliated collegians and alumnae donate more than $5 million to causes, provide $2.8 million in scholarships to women, and volunteer 500,000 hours in their communities. The organization holds a philosophy that it is a conference, not a congress, as it enacts no legislation and only regulates its own meetings. Other than basic agreements which its groups must unanimously vote to follow, NPC confines itself to recommendations and advice and acts as a court of final appeal in any College Panhellenic difficulty. One of its services is providing advisors for college and alumnae Panhellenic organizations.

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