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We participated in many external philanthropy events and enjoyed supporting so many great causes. In April we held a concert and cookout one night and a kickball tournament for our spring philanthropy event benefiting RIF. It was a great way to raise money and enjoy each other’s company; all the organizations that participated enjoyed the events. In the fall we held our reading is key event at the Blacksburg Children’s Museum, this change in venue from a school allowed us to reach a larger number of children and offer different activities.
== Highlights of 2017 ==
The chapter participated in many community service events outside of our own philanthropy, such as Shackathon, Relay for Life, and The Big Event. Many of our sisters are heavily involved in these events, and have leadership positions within them which incentivized other sisters to participate. Shackathon was in support of Habitat for Humanity and we paired with another fraternity on campus. Through joint efforts and a bake sale at the shack, we were able to help raise money for Habitat as well as build a stronger relationship with another organization in Greek life. The chapter also participated in many other greek organizations philanthropies, even winning ATO's philanthropy supporting the Women's Resource Center of the NRV. This past year the chapter has been very focused on improving PR around campus so many booths and photoshoots were held to help get our name around to people. We celebrated the chapter by having two date parties, formals and semi-formals where sisters got the chance to spend time with each other in a different setting than usual.
[[File:Zeta Mu 2017.jpg|thumb|The members of Zeta Mu chapter in 2017.]]
This past spring Virginia Tech added its thirteenth sorority to campus, Kappa Alpha Theta. We welcomed them with open arms considering our long history and this fall had our first Kite and Key event! The event was a joint bowling event where both chapters had a great time. Overall our chapter has improved greatly while trying to improve PR. We have participated in many philanthropies, attend more events and increased our awareness on campus.
This past year we held many donation booths on campus to raise money for Reading is Fundamental, Reading is Key and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation. This year, our signature fundraising event was "Kappa Kickball" to support Reading is Fundamental. We hosted a cookout at the Kappa house where funds were raised through admission and a raffle, as well as a kickball tournament where each team dressed to a theme and funds were raised by admission. A portion of the money raised was given as a prize to the top 3 organizations who won the events based on a point system. The Reading is Key event was held at the Blacksburg children's museum, and involved activities such as drawing with the children in attendance, reading with them, and decorating snacks and cookies. Our sisters were eager to help and happy to interact with all of the kids that had showed up.
We decided to focus mainly on RIF and Reading is Key this year since it is our internal philanthropy which we hold closer to our heart. We did chose to participate in other philanthropies supporting varied causes such as The Ronald Mcdonald House, Womens Resource Center, and GI Veterans.
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