<span style="font-weight: 400;">A Unified Philanthropy Effort: Cardiac Care</span>
Following the Fraternity’s united philanthropic work during World War II, Alpha Phi had hoped to have a unified cause to direct its charitable work towards. For years, the proposition had stalled with convention attendees unable to decide between the many worthy causes. After yet another show of philanthropic unity during World War II, the Fraternity was more motivated than ever to decide on a national project.
At the 1946 Convention in Quebec, delegates proposed six worthy organizations as possible philanthropic projects to be adopted by Alpha Phi: the Chaplain’s Service Corps (which the Fraternity had already been supporting since at least late 1945), the American Friends Service Committee, the Cardiac Aid Society, and three other scholarship programs. When the vote was taken on the morning of Friday, June 28th, Cardiac Aid became Alpha Phi’s first peacetime philanthropy project.