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|Founded= {{start date and years ago|1927|02|25}}
|College= [httphttps://www.uwyo.edu/ University of Wyoming]
|Location= Laramie, WY
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'''University of Wyoming, established in 1886 in Laramie, Wyoming'''
Gamma Omicron supports the Albany County Safe Project because their mission is to advocate for and empower survivors of stalking, intimate partner, family and sexual violence. This year we were also able to participate in their Take Back the Night event. Safe Project has made a huge difference in our community and we feel lucky to have been able to support them for multiple years.
==Highlights of 2020s:2020==
Our chapter supports our Fraternity philanthropy, Reading is Fundamental. We also support our local philanthropy, Albany County SAFE project. We also do book buddies with our local schools.
We love working with Albany County SAFE project because they have a great message. They help with domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, etc. We also love participating in book buddies with our local schools because it involves our chapter with more reading events.
Our chapter celebrated Kappa’s 150th anniversary with the Founder’s Day Ceremony. We also watched the Facebook live celebration that was held by the Fraternity. Our kitchen also made special blue cupcakes to celebrate the 150 years!
==Highlights of 2021==
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We support the Albany County Safe Project as our local philanthropy because our chapter really appreciates the help they give the community and how they help people in general. We also really think that helping people in need is extremely important and having the resources they provide is super important especially since they help support people on the University of Wyoming Campus as well. We also raised/donated $10,350.23 for the Albany County Safe Project in 2021. We also support our local Veterans community. We support them because we want them to know that they are loved and appreciated, and that people do care about/for them. Gamma Omicron supported them by making them holiday cards for them, Christmas/winter holiday, valentines, Halloween, etc. We also had a totally of 704 hours of service hours for a variety of local philanthropies that members in our chapter completed.
This year we raised $4,228.49 for our Kappa philanthropy by hosting our Kappa Cookout event. We also did some mental health awareness tabling. For this we tabled and talked to
community members about mental health and asked them to sign a pledge to support mental health. We also had information about mental health statistics, and we gave out
stickers that said “mental health matters”.
In the 2021-year Covid-19 changed a lot of our chapter functions. At the start of 2021 we held almost every single event online. We changed all of our meetings to be held on zoom
and practically all paperwork that had been done by hand on paper was now done online. We held zoom ritual reviews where we learned our ritual and chaotically sung over zoom. We
also held virtual initiations that looked very different than what we do in person but that still went well. Due to having Chapter meetings online we started having themed meeting where
we would dress up as a specific theme. Those were really fun. We also held a few socials online with other chapters as well as a few online sisterhoods.
As we transitioned into the fall school semester we have transitioned back into in-person meetings, ritual reviews, initiation, fundraisers, and events while still taking precautions
against Covid-19, such as mask-wearing and social distancing, and making online options for members who are sick. This fall specifically we were able to do move-in in-person.
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