Changes

Our chapter continues to partner with the Chanhassen and Eagan Feed My Starving Children locations. We have volunteered at this local Feed My Starving Children for a very long time. We also recently have paired with Arc’s Valley Village, as well as the Twin Cities Marathon. This past year we also have really focused on restructuring our local philanthropy , Girls Academy. Girls Academy is a philanthropy we have every year at Northeast Middle School in Minneapolis. We work with young women to promote positive body images and supporting other women. This past year we have restructured this philanthropy to include three smaller events throughout the semester, rather than just one larger event. This has allowed more women in our chapter to get more involved with Girls Academy and develop more meaningful and lasting relationships throughout the semester. We chose Girls Academy because we have been doing it since 2012 and have developed a relationship with the school that we go to. We support Reading Is Fundamental because it is Kappa Kappa Gamma's National Philanthropy and we believe in the power of literacy. We have continued to work with such an organization due to the local and global impact. Locals come together in order to better the lives thousands of miles away. The latter two organizations allow Chi chapter to better the community that is immediately around us, as well as have a global impact. We chose Girls Academy as our chapter’s local philanthropy because of the strong impact that we can have on our community. Being located in a metropolitan area, we wanted to make an impact on an underserved school in a way that would be meaningful to the women in our chapter and the girls at Northeast Middle School. Our Chapter strives to push our members to make an impact on all scales, and these specific philanthropies allows us to do so.