Bell Chapter Challenge
Make a direct impact on your home chapter, or an undergraduate chapter close to you, with designated academic and leadership development scholarships through one of our dedicated endowment or annual support options.
Transforming our Sigma Chi chapters and the leaders of tomorrow.
Since 2018, Sigma Chi has focused on equipping members with skills to excel in their post-college careers through the Transformational Leader™ program. Designed to develop critical leadership abilities for undergraduate brothers, the program fosters skills like critical thinking, effective communication, problem-solving, and team-building to lead chapters and thrive in future workplaces. By offering leadership certificates^ as stackable credentials and digital badges as career marketing tools, the program delivers a unique, immersive leadership experience, setting Sigma Chi apart in the interfraternal community.
To further support its members, Sigma Chi is committed to providing annual academic and leadership development scholarships to deserving undergraduates. The Thomas Cowan Bell Chapter Challenge invites alumni to endow (or annually support) their chapters with top-tier educational resources, empowering future Sigma Chi leaders to make a lasting impact on campuses and in communities.*
Your tax-deductible gift—whether one-time, monthly, or annual—can ensure your chapter’s vitality and support its ongoing success for years to come.
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^ Sigma Chi created Sigma Chi Leadership Institute, its own learning service provider accredited through Middle States Association-Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools (MSA-CESS), to develop courses proven to increase our brothers’ ability to receive increased responsibilities and an expedited rate of promotion in their workplaces, and an increased base pay in their employment.
*Chapters presently supported by annual or endowment-level gifts from dedicated alumni, on average, produce higher GPAs, hold more leadership positions on campus, are more active within the communities, and have substantially fewer conduct issues.
2026 to 2027 Thomas Cowan Bell Chapters
The following chapters will receive endowment-level benefits during the 2026 to 2027 academic year, including academic scholarships and leadership development education delivered on-site by the Sigma Chi Leadership Institute.
Chapters must reach the $250,000 Blue-level endowment threshold to begin receiving these annual benefits in perpetuity.
Please see below for an overview of the Bell Chapter endowment levels.
FOUNDERS
($1,000,000)
Beta Iota | Oregon
Delta Delta | Purdue
Gamma Iota | Louisiana State
Gamma Xi | Wyoming
Sigma Chi Epsilon | Arizona State
PLATINUM
($750,000)
Epsilon Eta | Cal. State-Fresno
Kappa Kappa | Illinois
Tau | Roanoke
New Associate Chapter | UNLV
GOLD ($500,000)
Beta Mu | Colorado (Boulder)
Beta Upsilon | Washington State
Delta Xi | San Diego State
Eta | Mississippi
Epsilon Zeta | Florida State
Gamma Chi | Maryland
Gamma Delta | Oklahoma State
Sigma Chi Beta | Washington (St. Louis)
Zeta Psi | Cincinnati
BLUE
($250,000)
Alpha Omicron | Tulane
Alpha Phi | Cornell
Alpha Upsilon | Southern California
Beta Chi | Emory
Beta Kappa | Oklahoma
Beta Phi | Arizona
Beta Pi | Oregon State
Beta Sigma | Tennessee-Knoxville
Beta Theta | Pittsburgh
Chi | Hanover
Delta | Georgia
Delta Mu | Southern Methodist
Delta Omega | Tulsa
Epsilon Nu | Texas Tech
Epsilon Omega | Ball State
Eta Upsilon | Texas A&M-College Station
Gamma Epsilon | Whitman
Iota Iota | Alabama
Iota Nu | Furman
Psi Psi | Syracuse
Rho | Butler
Theta Eta | Missouri S&T
Upsilon Upsilon | Washington (Seattle)
Zeta Kappa | California-Santa Barbara
Zeta Phi | New Mexico State
$2 Million
$80,000 annual benefits
in perpetuity
$30,000 in designated academic scholarships
Local leadership training courses, totaling twenty-six hours of curriculum, PLUS a Leadership Journey™ retreat (or equivalent). All materials, facilitator travel expenses and meals are provided to the chapter at no additional cost.
Additional $20,000 determined by chapter to impact greatest need (academic scholarships or leadership development)
$1.5 Million
$60,000 annual benefits
in perpetuity
$20,000 in designated academic scholarships
Local leadership training courses, totaling twenty-two hours of curriculum, PLUS a Leadership Journey™ retreat (or equivalent). All materials, facilitator travel expenses and meals are provided to the chapter at no additional cost.
Additional $20,000 determined by chapter to impact greatest need (academic scholarships or leadership development)
$1 Million
$40,000 annual benefits
in perpetuity
$15,000 in designated academic scholarships
Local leadership training courses, totaling 20 hours of curriculum, PLUS a Leadership Journey™ retreat (or equivalent). All materials, facilitator travel expenses and meals are provided to the chapter at no additional cost.
Additional $10,000 determined by chapter to impact greatest need (academic scholarships or leadership development)
$750,000
$30,000 annual benefits
in perpetuity
$15,000 in designated academic scholarships
Local leadership training courses, totaling 17 hours of curriculum OR a Leadership Journey™ retreat PLUS a micro-course. All materials, facilitator travel expenses and meals are provided to the chapter at no additional cost.
$500,000
$20,000 annual benefits
in perpetuity
$10,000 in designated academic scholarships
Two local leadership training courses, under 10 hours of curriculum. All materials, facilitator travel expenses and meals are provided to the chapter at no additional cost.
$250,000
$10,000 annual benefits in perpetuity
$5,000 in designated academic scholarships
One local leadership training course, under five hours of curriculum. All materials, facilitator travel expenses and meals are provided to the chapter at no additional cost.
Sigma Chi Donor Clubs
William Lewis Lockwood Society
Lifetime gifts of $100,000 or more to support the Foundation.
James Parks Caldwell Society
Brothers, sweethearts and friends who have established a legacy gift valued at $25,000 or more to support Sigma Chi through the Sigma Chi Foundation.
White Cross Trust
Annual gifts of $2,500 or more to support the Foundation.
Annual Contributor
Annual gifts of $999 or less supporting the Foundation.