Mike McBride is on quite a journey already.

Imagine a co-ed, adult basketball team practicing once a week for five months to prepare for just a single day of competition.

Following his diagnosis with bipolar disorder at age 16, Ross turned his experience into an opportunity to educate others.

Using their popularity, resources and large group numbers, fraternities and sororities have been raising awareness and funds for philanthropies for years. Each is associated with a national or local philanthropy in which they dedicate time to help those in need.

It started with a single voice, Italian opera singer Lucia Amato singing a traditional Jewish folk melody while she was imprisoned in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland during World War II.

HIGH POINT, N.C., Dec. 17, 2014 Ð Pi Kappa Phi hosted an Empathy Dinner for the second year in a row to increase awareness of people who live with disabilities. Each participant experienced a disability for the night; some were blindfolded while others could only eat with one arm.