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Finally, on December 10th, several members from our chapter spent four hours wrapping gifts for a law firm named Murgitroyd. The firm is located in Durham, NC and specializes in Intellectual Property Law. Murgitroyd reached out to Eta Chi because they needed help wrapping books to give out as holiday gifts for their clients. In exchange for the time spent helping this company accomplish their goal of wrapping these gifts, Murgitroyd gave a donation of $700 to the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation. Eta Chi is proud that four hours of our time was spent for a great cause; raising money for the Kappa Foundation.
'''Philanthropy:'''
In mid-October, the Eta Chi chapter participated in Southern SMASH on NC State’s campus. Southern SMASH is a non-profit event created by fellow Kappa, McCall Dempsey, to raise eating disorder awareness and promote positive body image by physically destroying weight scales. During the event, students were encouraged to visit booths hosted by the Counseling Center, an eating disorder treatment center, and several other hosts, that promoted diversity and healthy eating. After visiting these booths, students were able to write positive messages on cards for them to keep to promote self-love; as well as “tombstones” to write a message to the scale before they smashed them. Students then took sledgehammers and smashed the scales along with their tombstones. All sororities were invited to participate in the event, but Eta Chi had the most participants and volunteers by far and were able to spend time talking to McCall and showing support for their fellow Kappa. McCall also hosted a talk later that day to share her experience battling and defeating her eating disorder, which many members of Eta Chi attended as well. The event allowed Eta Chi to remind themselves of their own self-worth, as well as share body positivity and raise eating disorder awareness on our campus.
In early November, the Eta Chi chapter was approached by Beta Theta Pi fraternity to work together to make lunches for over 100 volunteers at Habitat for Humanity's and NC State's Build-A-Block project. Build-A-Block is an ongoing effort to build 11 affordable and sustainable town-homes near the university's campus. The builders there were very appreciative and gracious, and invited both fraternities to come and help build over the following two semesters. Any left over lunch supplies were donated; fresh fruit and sandwiches were taken to local homeless shelters, and non-perishable items were kept by Habitat for Humanity for the following weekend's project.
The week after Installation, Kappa t-shirts were sold at the chapter house to members for $1 each. The total proceeds, which amounted to $133, were donated towards the Kappa Foundation.
On December 10th, several members from our chapter spent four hours wrapping gifts for a law firm named Murgitroyd. The firm is located in Durham, NC and specializes in Intellectual Property Law. Murgitroyd reached out to Eta Chi because they needed help wrapping books to give out as holiday gifts for their clients. In exchange for the time spent helping this company accomplish their goal of wrapping these gifts, Murgitroyd gave a donation of $700 to the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation. Eta Chi is proud that four hours of our time was spent for a great cause; raising money for the Kappa Foundation.
We chose to donate our time and volunteer at the Southern SMASH to show our support for a fellow Kappa. No matter where each of our paths takes us, we are all united by the bonds we share through our sisterhood. We were more than happy to assist and support a fellow sister, especially when the event promotes women empowerment and destroying unrealistic standards that many women feel the need to uphold and silently struggle with.
We chose to donate our time and work with Beta for the Habitat for Humanity project because it was a great way to give back to our local community and help those families in need; every person deserves a roof over their head and a meal at least once a day. We look forward to working with Habitat for Humanity again in the following semesters.
We chose to donate to the Kappa Foundation because, as fellow sisters, we believe in supporting the development of women and preserving our heritage; what better way than to honor the organization that gives us our reason to come together and be a family.
'''Chapter Facility''':
Our Chapter meets in our beautiful, newly renovated house on Avent Ferry Rd in Raleigh, NC. The lower level of the house is where our Chapter meeting room is located, as well as our dining hall, kitchen, and a study/lounge space. The second floor of the house is where the main entrance is, consisting of an elegant foyer which opens up to our formal living room and a smaller study space; another private living room and bedrooms are also located on this floor. The third floor of the house consists of another private living room and the remainder of the bedrooms.
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