Service
The Settlement Home
Our main philanthropy is The Settlement Home for Children, a home for helping abused and neglected girls. Almost every Friday, 15 members visit with the girls at the home to play outside, do crafts, and serve as role models to encourage the girls to go to college. We also hold a benefit event for The Settlement Home every fall to raise money for the girls.To learn more about The Settlement Home, go to www.settlementhome.org.
Our typical philanthrophy has been Capture the 40 Acres. This benefit Capture-the-Flag tournament will be held in Fall 2009 semester - look for more information to come. In past events participants received:
- 2 hours of play time across campus
- FREE T-shirt
- FREE food and drink
- Prizes for tournament winners & for special team awards
Tappee Projects
One of the requirements of a tappee, a new member to the organization, is to work together as a new member class and come up with a service project that will benefit the community. Past projects include:- Mom & Dad's Day (now Parent's Weekend)
- Capture the 40 Acres
- Week of Women
- The Barbara Jordan Statue Project
- Save Voices Against Violence
- Push for Safety Callbox Initiative
- UT Fashion Heritage Project
- Pennies Make Sense
- Asking for Access
Service to UT and the Austin Community
Orange Jackets serve hundreds of hours as an organization for the UT and Austin communities. Here is a sampling of the organizations we help every year:- Eastside Community Connection
- Ronald McDonald House
- UT Dance Marathon
- UT Freshmen Admissions Center
- Zilker Kite Festival
- UT Services for Students with Disabilities
- Austin Fine Arts Festival
- Crazy Science Extravaganza
- Habitat for Humanity
- Girlstart
- Race for the Cure
- Austin Children's Shelter
- Safeplace
- UT Longhorn Halloween
- UT Orange Santa
