Based in San Luis Obispo, California, this foundation's purpose is to support and educate at-risk, foester children. The D.R.E.A.M. educational campus, currently being planned, will benefit youth ages 4 to 18 with vocational training, on-site schooling, life-skills development programs, residential quarters, a recreational auditorium, medical and counseling facilities, shelters for gardening and animals, and more.
As the largest fraternal philanthropy of its kind, the NAFD has raised to date over three million pounds of food for those in need. Once every year, each Lambda Chi chapter across the U.S. & Canada collects canned and non-perishable food and donates it to a food bank that will benefit the chapter's local community. Often, campus sororities and non-Greek student organizations get involved, helping to collect even more food.
Our chapter has chosen the Salvation Army to donate the food we raise from the NAFD because its values and goals closely match those of Lambda Chi Alpha. The food we raise benefits the Upper Peninsula of Michigan community. We also assist the Salvation Army in other ways on an as needed basis.
We associate our involvement in the NAFD with the WLUC TV Canathon which helps us reach a larger donation audience through increased publicity. Our brothers host the TV6 Canathon television shows and sort food donated during those television shows as well.
The fraternity assists the American Red Cross through fundraisers and by providing free help.