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Another change that is coming up is that the Super Bowl will be held at US Bank Stadium this year. This is an exciting time for both UMN students as well as the state of Minnesota. This provides many opportunities for the Greek community to contribute and promote itself to a greater community. Our chapter continues to partner with the Chanhassen Feed My Starving Children location. 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. 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. Our chapter strives to push our members to make an impact on all scales and these specific philanthropies allows us to do so. Our chapter continues to meet on Monday nights in the main house living room. Although our chapter is continuing to grow we have been able to keep up such a tradition.
==Highlights of 2018==
2018 was a year of academic and philanthropic success for Chi chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Through new and exciting opportunities for growth and academic achievement, Chi chapter was awarded the seventh highest GPA out of the 15 sororities on campus. In addition to this accomplishment, 30 members met our GPA goal of 3.3, achieving a chapter-wide GPA of 3.4. Also, 57 members made the dean’s list, and 11 earned a 4.0. These numbers are extremely high and reflect significantly on the amount of effort that all members put forth through their academics. Chi chapter is full of women who exceed expectations when it comes to both academics and philanthropic participation.
Our President, Vice President Standards and our Panhellenic Delegate attended Kappa Kappa Gamma convention in Denver, CO this summer. Chi chapter won countless honorable mentions at the convention, but we were also awarded the highest honor a Kappa chapter can be awarded - Most Outstanding Chapter. Our chapter was awarded this high honor for many reasons, but most notably we have an incredible sisterhood at Chi Chapter. The women of this chapter are above all supportive of one another, and this really came to light when we had an LC visit in the spring of 2018. She reported back to headquarters that our ritual, philanthropy, and sisterhood were all stellar and that she was pleasantly surprised with the wonderful women that she encountered at Chi.
Chi chapter took on a new outlook on philanthropy this past year. There were many opportunities for girls to contribute their time and effort to enrich the community around them. In the spring, Chi chapter held multiple philanthropies, such as Kappa Karnations and Breakfast at Kappa. These were both very successful events and raised money for GIRLS Academy and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation. In the fall, we piloted a new philanthropy called Kappa Karnival. Through donations and the attendance fee, around $3,000 was raised for GIRLS Academy, and Reading is Fundamental. This means our chapter raised around $7,200 in total for all of 2018. There were also multiple opportunities outside of our chapter to volunteer that were new this year.
Here at the University of Minnesota, recruitment has gained a substantial amount of interest over the years, this year there were 803 women enrolled in formal recruitment. As a chapter, Chi revamped their philanthropy round, even more, to properly showcase how important these philanthropies are to all of us. Through these modifications, this chapter gained 42 amazing new members who were initiated on the 3rd of November. The entire chapter is so proud of all of these women for perfectly embodying what a Kappa Kappa Gamma should be.
In the overall Panhellenic Community, Chi chapter has also taken an active role in order to make additions that positively benefit all sororities. The newly installed Vice President Finance on the Panhellenic Council is one of our very own sophomore members. Overall, Chi chapter has greatly exceeded expectations this year and looks forward to all of the new improvements and achievements to come.
A recent change on our campus is that the Panhellenic Council has worked with MSA and general U of M administration to improve student safety, especially for women, on campus. This includes extending the hours for the UMN Shuttle service called Gopher Chauffeur in order to give students the option for a free and safe ride home. There has been a greater improvement to make this better over the past year. As well as working with Gopher Women's sports to show our support for other women's organizations on campus.
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 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.
Our chapter continues to meet on Monday nights in the main house living room. Although our chapter is continuing to grow, we have been able to keep up such a tradition."
