National Philanthropy Lambda Phi Epsilon’s National Philanthropy is the Asian American Donor Program (AADP) which is anon-profit organization whose goal is to save lives and to help promote awareness for leukemia and other blood disorders, whose patients require bone marrow transplants. For individuals who suffer from this, their best hope for matched donors are those within their Asian community. The more people that register, the better the chances of finding a match for those in need. Twice a year, with the help of AADP, our chapter holds its own registration drives on campus to encourage Asian and minority students to register themselves as potential bone marrow/stem cell donors. Since our conception, our chapter has been able to register over 800 potential donors and counting.
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The establishment of our Fraternity’s National Philanthropy was brought out by the need of one our Brother’s for a matched donor. In 1995, Evan Chen, a Brother of Theta Chapter at Stanford University, was diagnosed with leukemia. Their chapter along with Evan’s friends organized a joint effort to find a bone marrow donor. What resulted was the largest bone marrow typing drive in the history of the 