Unlike the jewelry, the medallions are available direct from the National Office and prepaid orders are shipped as soon as they are received. Annual Reports Chapters are required to submit an annual report to the national office which identifies their officers and chapter advisor, and lists the chapter's activities for the past year. The information in this report is used to select the winners of the Best Chapter Awards, so chapters should take care to make them as complete as possible. Each issue of the Pi Sigma Alpha Newsletter has an annual report outline which chapters should use as a guide for the kinds of information to be included in their reports. Other Chapter Activities Beyond the basic activities necessary to sustain a chapter lie many more possibilities for more ambitious chapters.
Some examples follow.
The National Office sponsors an annual program of grants to chapters for special activities. The program announcement is sent out at the beginning of the fall semester, proposals are accepted through November, the awards committee meets early in December and grants are awarded immediately thereafter. This has been a highly successful program for many years, and provides the means for chapters to put together projects with a broader scope than they otherwise could. One of the great benefits of this program is the practice it gives students in proposal-writing. A good proposal will clearly describe the exact nature and scope of the proposed activity and will be concisely written with no unnecessary verbiage or other information.