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This year was super fun for Philanthropy! Our Philanthropy Chairmain, Caitlin Durcan, started off the winter 2018 semester by writing Valentine’s Day cards to the local Montreal Children’s hospital spreading all the love we can. Kappa Kappa Gamma and the Zeta Psi Fraternity also combined our effort and collected clothing and canned foods that helped support Sun Youth Organization, a non-profit organization that helps provide an array of services for underprivileged youth in Montreal. The winter 2019 semester with a bake sale that helped raise over $200 for First Book Canada.
During the Fall 2018 semester, we joined McGill’s “Right To Play” spinathon in which we beat our donation goal and were able to go beyond what we initially aimed for. Our main event of the fall semester was having an event at Spin Energy which is a local spin studio right in our Milton Park community. From our ticket sales and donations, we raised $950! Individual members also participated in other organizations events like Sigma Chi’s Derby Days, Gamma Phi Beta’s Moonball, and other non- Greek activities like volunteering and fundraising for additional charities. The energy and participation from the Greek-community, our kappa sisters and McGill community members has been beyond anything we have seen before and allowed our Philanthropy to go beyond our expectations.
==Highlights of 2019==
[[File:Delta Delta chapter members 2019.jpg|thumb|Some Delta Delta chapter members at the Kappa house in 2019.]]
This year the Delta Delta Chapter welcomed thirteen new, amazing, kind and strong women. Due to our expanding chapter, we decided to look for a new house so we can all continue to grow. In April 2019, we found a new house and during the summer our President, house board and some other girls helped settle into the home. This house allows for seven women to live in, for all 70 actives to sit in the chapter room during meetings and invites all of us to come enjoy time at the house. We definitely have more room to grow now.
This year, our President, Vice President Standards, Vice President Organization, the Membership chairman as well as the Education chairman all attended the Kappa Leadership Conference in Atlanta. Our chapter was also selected to take part in a program called leadTODAY, where we spent a day learning and exploring new and creative ways to make our chapter stronger and as best as it can be. We all appreciated the experienced and have started to implement some of the ideas we discussed.
This year we decided to switch our local philanthropy to Shield of Athena, which is a support shelter and organization that helps women, children and families who have been affected by domestic and or sexual violence. The women from our chapter are very passionate about women supporting and helping other women and we wanted to find something that we can help make a difference in. We settled on this because we know that domestic abuse and sexual violence is a huge issue and that women and families who are victim to this feel alone a lot of the times. In March, we had an event called Grabba Grabba Donut, where we sold Krispy Kreme donuts to raise money for First Book Canada and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation. We were able to raise nearly 400$. During the fall semester, we decided to do a clothing drive where anyone was welcomed to drop off any clothes they didn't want or need anymore at the Kappa house. All of the clothing was donated to a local women’s shelter called Chez Doris, because Shield of Athena didn’t have a need for the clothes this year.
Our event chairman went above and beyond with her formal and semi-formal. In the winter semester, our formal was held at the Intercontinental Hotel and making it the most amazing night ever we had a Poutine Bar to show our Montreal roots as well as a delicious candy bar. Our semi-formal in the fall semester was held at the Hotel Crystal, where our events chairman and philanthropy chairman worked together to create a silent auction so we can raise money and have an amazing night. We were able to raise 450$ for First Book Canada, the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation as well as Shield of Athena. Our events chairman also organized amazing mixers. From dinner with Theta at Cacao 70, to an 80s themed mixer with Alpha Delta Phi, to a mixer we called Sigs and Wigs with Sigma Chi, we were able to hang out with our fellow Greek friends and create amazing memories.
Our new home allowed us to have an amazing Initiation, as well as an amazing Founder’s Day. For our Founder’s Day this year we had a ceremony October 6, 2019, due to Canadian Thanksgiving during our real Founder’s Day. The ceremony took place at our new house, where alums and actives all came together to enjoy the day. We had coffee, desserts and fruit platters to share. We also pulled old artifacts, such as a scrapbook dating back to 1930, when our Chapter was born.