Role As A Parent
Your involvement and encouragement will help shape your daughter's experience in Rainbow. She will see your commitment to her growth, and before you know it, you'll be growing too! You will get to know your daughter's friends and be able to spend quality time with her while enjoying wholesome activities. Here are some suggestions for becoming an involved parent: 
Attend Meetings and other events to which parents and families are invited.
Provide assembly dues and additional funds for special events and activities. If you cannot afford a fee, ask the Mother Advisor to help you apply for financial aid. 
Take responsibility for your child's health and well-being. Plan to go along on trips when your daughter requires special attention. 
Support your daughter's Mother Advisor and offer to help. You can shop for supplies, make phone calls, or share a skill or talent. Be sure to appreciate and recognize the efforts and time of these dedicated volunteers. 
Help in the dining room after a reception or installation so the adult officers will be able to more efficiently conduct their duties. You will have fun ladling punch, cutting brownies and dishing up ice cream as fast as you can go!

Rainbow Girl Attire
Your daughter will need a floor length formal. We ask that the dress be no shorter than two inches from the floor and have straps at least one inch wide. Many times, an Assembly will have a "locker" of dresses which girls have donated. A girl is welcome to choose from any dress in the locker. We ask that when she outgrows the dress, she return it to the locker for another deserving girl to wear. No black, please!

Membership & Dues
The annual dues of the membership vary from Assembly to Assembly. These dues include a supplemental insurance policy covering your daughter when she is attending a Rainbow function. It also supplements your own personal insurance when you are a chaperon at an activity or when you are driving for a Rainbow function. The dues are due by the first meeting in January although they may be paid before that date. Your daughter needs to have her dues paid before she can vote, hold office or be elected into an office. If a girl has not paid dues by June 1st, she is considered delinquent. She is notified by mail first of July and again in August. If her dues are not paid after the second notice, she is suspended from membership. If, after suspension, her dues are brought up to date before the end of the year, she may be reinstate to membership with a vote of the Assembly. 

If, for some reason, your daughter does not wish to continue her membership, we advise her to take a dimit. With a dimit, she may visit Rainbow for six months and also obtain a majority certificate if she is eligible. A dimit may also be used to transfer membership to a new location in most parts of the country and around the world.

Your daughter's membership would be terminated by expulsion for the following reasons: pregnancy, confirmed use of drugs or alcohol, theft, police detention and/or booking, and any other conduct unbecoming a Rainbow girl. Interpretation of "other" poor conduct would be determined by the Advisory Board of the Assembly. Rainbow will always stand behind its members who are unjustly accused, but will never justify including girls of poor character as members of the Order. 

Money Raising Activities
Because the Assemblies are self-supporting and the girls' dues are nominal, it is necessary to hold fundraising projects during each term. Projects could include the annual fireworks stand, rummage sales, candy sales, paper drives, pancake breakfasts, spaghetti dinners, car washes and everything in between!

We hope you and your family and friends will support these worthwhile projects. Money raised helps support our contributions to the non-profit organizations and also helps defray part of the cost for all of the girls to attend Grand Assembly in June. If you have a good fund raising idea, let your daughter know or feel free to contact the Mother Advisor directly!

Service Projects
Each Worthy Advisor selects a charity project for her term. These may include making tray favors for a nursing home, helping a need family at Christmas, visiting and helping at convalescent homes, working for Muscular Dystrophy/Cancer Research/Diabetes Research/Heart Foundation/March of Dimes/Special Olympics or even collecting eyeglasses for the local Lion's organization. Your daughter will be expected to help in some way on such service projects. Rainbow is a SERVICE organization and each girl should feel a social responsibility to participate in helping the less fortunate. 

The girls support the state organization by raising funds for the Grand Worthy Advisor's project. In recent years we have donated $6,000 to $11,000 per year to the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children, Special Olympics, Multiple Sclerosis, Children's Language Disorders, Officer Buddy Bear, and many others.