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|Founded= {{start date and years ago|1954|11|05}}
|College= [httphttps://www.fresnostate.edu/ Fresno State]
|Location= Fresno, CA
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'''1,499 570 initiates (as of June 20152018)'''
'''Charter Members:'''
Delta Omega chose this organization to support because it coincides with our national philanthropy RIF. It is great to provide the kids with books to read, and to volunteer our time to better their ability to read.
==Highlights of 2020s2017== This past year has been definitely one to remember, and also very successful for the Delta Omega Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma to say the least. This past spring of 2017 we were unable to welcome new sisters, however in the fall of 2017 Kappa gained 28 new members. Additionally, our philanthropy chairman, Sawyer Celentano with the help of the chapter, put on two philanthropies that everyone was able to enjoy. In the spring we held Kappa Olympics, and Kappa Softball in the fall, where we raised money for our local charity Stone Soup and donated money to Reading Is Fundamental. We are extremely proud to say we were able to donate $1400. Along with our normal events all our sisters came together for a car wash where the proceeds made went to the victims and their families of the Las Vegas shooting, we raised almost $1000, which is tremendous to say the least. Aside from putting on our own philanthropies, we also participated in many of the fraternities philanthropies. Delta Omega took first place in Lambda Chi volleyball and just recently Sigma Phi Epsilon's Queen Hearts, the proceeds of this one went to the local boys and girls club.. We were also very excited to participate and place in Delta Sigma Phi powderpuff and Sigma Chi Derby Days, where we helped raise nearly $3000 for Children's Hospital as well as helped donate books, toys, socks etc. Along with philanthropies we were also very active in serving our community. Many of us volunteered at Stone Soup and read to the class, passed out papers on Kid's Day, and helped clean a local women's shelter, which all served as wonderful experiences for the sisters. Throughout this year our Standards committee has put on multiple sisterhood events in order to promote sisterhood. Some events included:Kamp Kappa, High-Fitness night, Pajama party night and many student nights. Our sister Maddie Frediani attended the Kappa Leadership Academy in Ohio where she learned different leadership skills to bring back to the Delta Omega Chapter. Mara Lewis along with other sisters received scholarships from the Kappa Kappa Gamma foundation and this year's Founder's Day Luncheon. In addition, we have received second top grades on campus for four semesters in a row maintaining a 3.04 GPA. We are all immensely proud of our excellence this past year in philanthropies, sisterhood, and scholarships. California State University, Fresno has been urging alcohol awareness amongst college students throughout this past year in order for students to understand the dangers of alcohol. Consequently, our Risk Management Chairman also helped inform us as a chapter by bringing in a policeman to discuss the hazards of alcohol and drugs. Additionally, the campus has helped inform students of the high numbers of sexual assault that has taken place in Fresno. They have provided us awareness by having us complete sexual assault orientations in order to better our understanding and help us become more aware. Overall, this has been very beneficial, and our Risk Management Chairman Ally Zavala has done a great job at warning us and expanding our awareness.The Delta Omega chapter holds chapter meetings in our Kappa Kappa Gamma house on campus every Monday night. This is a facility we own. We are very gracious that this facility was just recently renovated in the summer. This house was built in 1963 on Greek row, which we currently own and accommodate 40 sisters that live in. Before Fresno State moved to the current campus, Delta Omega had a 14-room house, which was rented near the previous campus. We are happy we are now able to allow many more sisters live in. Throughout this past year, we have been extremely successful, which we are very proud of. However, we have set goals to continue to promote sisterhood on and off campus, serve as good role models, lead by example, and attribute more panhellenic ally. We strive to achieve these goals for the next year, and we look for another wonderful time in Kappa Kappa Gamma. ==Highlights of 2018== This past year has been unforgettable and exceptionally successful for the Delta Omega Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma.This past spring of 2018 we did not undergo a spring recruitment, however in the fall Kappa roped in 25 new members.Our philanthropy chairman, Danielle Rowland put on two amazing philanthropies along with assistance from the whole chapter. In Spring we had Kappa Olympics along with grilled cheese with KKG’s. The spring philanthropy made $3,210, $1,250 went to our national charity, Reading is Fundamental or RIF, $1,460 was donated to the kappa foundation and $500 to Reading Heart. In the fall Danielle put on Kappa softball where all the fraternities had a tournament at a local elementary school. We made a little over $3,300 again in fall and split that money up again with RIF, Reading Heart and our local charity of Stone Soup. In November of 2018, fires broke out in Paradise California, they are also known as Camp Fire. This tragedy affected thousands of people, losing their homes and precious town. It also affected many girls within the Delta Omega chapter, they had family and friends lose an abundance of belongings. Kappa Kappa Gamma donated clothes, food, books, baby cribs, toys anything that we could and shipped it over to Paradise, CA. We also participated in Kids Day as we do every year and raised over $1,200 in one morning for the Valley Children's hospital and the foundation. Aside from our own personal accomplishments we also attended and participated in multiple fraternity philanthropies. Delta Omega took first place in Sigma Chi derby days where we raised roughly around $2,700 for Children's Hospital, we also donated many books, toys and clothing that go both to the patients and their families. We also won Sigma Alpha Epsilon philanthropy which the proceeds also went to the Children’s Hospital. In fall we also participated in Sigma Phi Epsilon's Queen of Hearts Philanthropy where we nearly raised $3,000 for the boys and girls club by either donating money ourselves, getting coin donations and donating clothes and other material. That philanthropy is one of Delta Omega’s proudest moments, we did not win overall, however we did raise the most money which in the end is all that matters because we got to make a huge difference in multiple children's lives. Many other events such as Sigma Nu softball, Delta Sig powder puff and Lambda Chi volleyball we all participated in within our chapter and we had so much joy attending and raising money for the charities. Throughout this year our Standards committee has put on multiple sisterhood events in order to promote sisterhood. Some events included: T-shirt cutting for football games, poster events for philanthropies, Broomball on the ice skating rink and much more. Madison Mackin did a great job as Vice President of Standards and always tried to put on fun and exciting events for the chapter. Our sister Hallie Brown attended the Kappa Leadership Academy in Ohio where she learned different leadership skills to bring back to the Delta Omega Chapter. Sarah and Emily Kneeland were rewarded scholarships through kappa. Many of our sisters achieved above a 3.14 and were recognized at badge day, also out chapter achieved top grades for the 3rd time in a row out of the 5 houses in the panhellenic community. We are all immensely proud of our excellence this past year in philanthropies, sisterhood, and scholarships. California State University, Fresno has been urging alcohol awareness amongst college students throughout this past year in order for students to understand the dangers of alcohol. We have had multiple speakers come to out chapter to speak on behalf of alcohol, mental health awareness, self harm and sisterhood. Our Risk management Mikaela Turnipseed did a great job at keeping us aware and expanding our knowledge on all these topics. The Delta Omega chapter holds chapter meetings in our Kappa Kappa Gamma house on campus every Monday night. This is a facility we own. We are very gracious that this facility was just recently renovated in the summer.Throughout this past year, we have been extremely successful, which we are very proud of. We only hope to grow and seek out more success in the future, our chapter is one that leads by example and has a great unity within, the goals we set for 2018 are the same for the following years and only hope to improve. Kappa Kappa Gamma can not wait to see what the 2019 year will hold for our chapter.
==Highlights of 2019==
This past year has been unforgettable and exceptionally successful for the Delta Omega Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma.This past spring of 2019 we did not undergo a spring recruitment, however in the fall Kappa roped in 30 new members. 28 of those 30 went on to be initiated in November of this year and it was one of the most inspirational and exciting ones yet.Our philanthropy chairman, Taryn Davies put on two amazing philanthropies along with assistance from the whole chapter. In Spring we had Kappa Olympics along with grilled cheese with KKG. The spring philanthropy made $2,400, all the proceedings went out National philanthropy RIF or reading is fundamental! In the fall Taryn put on Kappa softball where all the fraternities had a tournament at a local elementary school. We made a little over $1,500 again in fall and split that money up again with RIF, Reading Heart and our local charity of Stone Soup. During the spring semester Badge Day took place on Fresno State's campus and over half of our chapter got recognized for having stellar GPA. Around the time of valentines day, a huge group of girls from our chapter went out and made valentines cards and delivered them to the Veterans of Fresno! They spent some time there as well and thanked them for their many years of service. We also participated in Kids Day as we do every year and raised over $1,200 in one morning for the Valley Children's hospital and the foundation. Aside from our own personal accomplishments we also attended and participated in multiple fraternity philanthropies. Delta Omega took third place in Sigma Chi derby days however all the panhellenic chapters banned together and raised an estimated $30,000 for Valley Chidens through this philanthropy. We also donated many books, toys and clothing that go both to the patients and their families. We participated in many other philanthropies such as Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Phi Epsilon’s and raised an abundance amount of money for Valley Childrens again and the Boys and Girls club located here in Fresno. These philanthropies are some of Delta Omega’s proudest moments, we did not win overall, however we did raise the most money which in the end is all that matters because we got to make a huge difference in many children's lives. Many other events such as Sigma Nu softball, Delta Sig powder puff and Lambda Chi volleyball we all participated in within our chapter and we had so much joy attending and raising money for the charities. Throughout this year our Standards committee has put on multiple sisterhood events in order to promote sisterhood. Some events included: T-shirt cutting for football games, poster events for philanthropies, working with Kuppa Joy and serving the Poverello house and doing a senior farewell night. Clarissa Lopez did a great job as Vice President of Standards and always tried to put on fun and exciting events for the chapter. Our sister Taryn Davies attended the Kappa Leadership Academy in Ohio where she learned different leadership skills to bring back to the Delta Omega Chapter. Maddie Promnitz, Alyssa Bonner and Kayal Cipirani were some of our sisters that received scholarships and got recognized at founders day for their outstanding membership within the chapter. We are all immensely proud of our excellence this past year in philanthropies, sisterhood, and scholarships. California State University, Fresno has been urging alcohol awareness amongst college students throughout this past year in order for students to understand the dangers of alcohol. We have had multiple speakers come to out chapter to speak on behalf of alcohol, mental health awareness, self harm and sisterhood. Our Risk management Maddie Promnitz did a great job at keeping us aware and expanding our knowledge on all these topics. The Delta Omega chapter holds chapter meetings in our Kappa Kappa Gamma house on campus every Monday night. This is a facility we own. We are very gracious that this facility was just recently renovated in the summer.Throughout this past year, we have been extremely successful, which we are very proud of. Our gracious and fearless president for the 2019 school year was Elaina Hupe, she dedicated an enormous amount of time to help this chapter grow and better itself, she has impacted kappa immensely and served as a positive light for Kappa. We only hope to grow and seek out more success in the future, our chapter is one that leads by example and has a great unity within, the goals we set for 2019 are the same for the following years and only hope to improve. Kappa Kappa Gamma can not wait to see what the 2020 year will hold for our chapter.
Chapter Summary
During the previous calendar year our chapter worked diligently to not only be active members of our community but of Kappa as a whole. Obviously the pandemic affected how we were able to run our chapter, but we didn't let that stop us from making memories we would cherish for a lifetime. For example we held sisterhood events like ZUMBA through zoom and continued our efforts to support our philanthropy by virtually taking donations and selling shirts! During our current fall semester we were thankful to have been able to move into the house again, allowing us to return to our normal lives somewhat. There is no better feeling than being able to be surrounded by your sisters once again. We were able to hold our fall philanthropy “Kappa Softball”, where we include the fraternities to play in a friendly slow-pitch softball tournament. All proceeds raised were donated to NAMI. Our current chapter council has been putting in a lot of hardwork to set our chapter up for success for the following years to come.
Our chapter supports Stone Soup, a local organization that focuses on helping Southeast Asian refugee families in America. We support them because we believe in the importance of giving back to our local community.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions we have been very limited to what we could do to support Stone Soup. Our chapter helped during a “drive-thru graduation” by passing out diplomas and goodie bags. In addition to that we donated $1000 during this time.