One amazing part of Service for Sight is the individual member support it gives to the members of the Delta Gamma Sorority. The foundation was able to provide $714,454 to 386 members for merit based scholarships for the 2022-2023 school year. The foundation also awarded thirty-six initiated graduates scholarships while they are attending graduate/professional degrees. The foundation also offers a third scholarship called the Sisters Helping Sisters scholarship. This scholarship is a need based scholarship that is given to sisters who are in clear financial need. There were around 86 members given this scholarship throughout the 2022 school year. 

Hands-on service is extremely important to our chapter members. Each semester, we have a week filled with service called “Do Good Week,” which helps us live out the Delta Gamma motto to Do Good. This week is filled with volunteer activities that help spread awareness for not only people with visual impairments, but also to promote eye health. During this week, we make tactile books for an alumni who is now a teacher for the visually impaired, make interactive crafts for the children at the Center for the Visually Impaired in Atlanta, GA, and have local eye doctors come and give presentations about eye health. These are just a few of the ways we Do Good by volunteering in our community. Beyond Service for Sight, many of our members are involved with other service organizations such as UGA Miracle, Extra Special People, Relay for Life, UGA HEROs, and many more! 

Another prominent way our sisters are involved with Service for Sight is through the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind. Several of our sisters over the past year have raised and trained guide dogs for this Foundation. These women socialize and teach basic obedience to these dogs from the age of about 10 weeks to around 16 months. Each year, a member of the sophomore Member class raises a puppy in the house! This year one of our sisters, Eva Grace, is raising our current in house guide dog, Bonnie,  who is on track to become a breeder for the Guide Dog Foundation. 

Another one of our sisters, Holly, had the honor of raising a yellow lab named, Giselle, in the Delta Iota house in 2020! Giselle was originally in training with the Guide Dog Foundation to be a service dog, but recently she was matched with a detection dog program for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Virginia!  Giselle graduated in 2021, and is now working with a police department in Massachusetts. We have had so many girls raise guide dogs that have become working dogs! One dog being,  Margaret, who was raised by a sister, Alayna, who is now a breeder for the foundation, and just had her first litter of puppies! While raising is an essential aspect to the success of these dogs, they can’t do it all on their own. Around 40 women are involved with the Guide Dog Foundation as campers, in which they help raisers with their dog when they might be unavailable. 

Since becoming so involved with the Guide Dog Foundation, ​we now have our signature philanthropy event with them every year. In spring of 2023, we hosted our first annual Dawgs on the Catwalk event where we partnered with our local Dawgs Raising Dawgs to put on a guide dog fashion show. Through the three years we have done this event now, we have raised over $50,000 for the Delta Gamma Foundation and the Guide Dog Foundation. Our work with the Guide Dog Foundation allowed Dawgs Raising Dawgs to sponsor their eleventh guide dog in training!

As Delta Iota sisters, we produce 18% of the service hours of the entire organization, ranking #1 in service in Delta Gamma and receiving a service award through UGA Panhellenic as well! This past fall, we had our fifth annual Slices for Sight event that successfully raised over $17,000! Slices for Sight has raised almost $80,000 for the Delta Gamma Foundation and Service for Sight. This event has been our most successful for the past five years.