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{{Infobox Fraternity|Name= Eta Tau|Image= [[File:Georgetown.jpg|200px]]|Founded= {{start date and years ago|2013|10|26}}|College= [https://www.georgetown.edu/ Chapman University]|Location= Washington, D.C.|Homepage= [https://georgetown.kappa.org/ Eta Tau Website]|Media= [https://wiki.kkg.org/index.php?title=Category:Eta_Tau Media related to Eta Tau Chapter]}}
Georgetown has grown to be a major international research university with eight schools, an affiliated hospital and many highly ranked academic programs. Today the university has more than 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students who take classes at five locations: Main Campus, Medical Center, Law Center, GU-Northern Virginia and the university’s School of Foreign Service-Qatar. Georgetown has a large and diverse workforce that employs more than 5,000 faculty and staff members.
==Kappa Presentation==
In the fall, our chapter celebrated its 5th birthday, and we welcomed 28 new girls in our Eta class. We increased our philanthropy efforts exponentially by volunteering weekly at a bilingual preschool in DC and reading to the students there.
Despite efforts by the university to suppress Greek life, membership numbers are growing and chapters are gaining public recognition from other on campus groups. The chapter has a high morale at the moment and is excited to welcome back 20+ girls who were studying abroad during the fall semester. '''==Highlights of 2019''' ==
This year Eta Tau chapter was driven philanthropic and full of fun sisterhood events.
Chapter Council: Chapter Council of 2018-2019 lead our chapter with an excitement and innovation that is truly contagious. They have spearheaded bigger and better things for our chapter, and we are forever thankful for their passion, spirit, and drivenness for our chapter. Our chapter has elected outstanding, qualified members for Chapter Council 2019-2020, and we are so excited to see everything the have in store for Eta Tau over this next year.
==Highlights of 2020==
Before COVID happened, we were able to host our academic banquet celebrating the chapter's academic achievements. We also had a formal in which all of our sisters had a great time. Once COVID happened, we switched to virtual events. Some of our virtual events included workout classes, watching Netflix or movies together. New Member baking retreat, big/little reveal, study hours on zoom, and kept up our tradition of having initiation sleepover but on Zoom instead. During convention, we were awarded the Ritual Award and had Honorable Mention for the categories of Risk Management and Recruitment. In the fall, we held our first ever virtual recruitment and were extremely successful! We had 47 new members and all of them were initiated in a virtual ceremony on November 14th with the prince of some Kappa family members. We held Chapter and Chapter Council weekly on Zoom as well. For Founders Day, we celebrated our 150th anniversary with a presentation, fun Kahoot, and which founder are you quiz. We also still had an academic excellence banquet to celebrate this last semester's academic achievements and gift cards were awarded. For RIF in the fall, we held a virtual 5K to encourage people to get active and also raise money on social media. Overall , our goal was to keep members engaged in the chapter and foster a community of support and I think we were successful in this.
"Chapter Philanthropy" - We support RIF, DC Central Kitchen, ACLU, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Martha's Table, and hoyaTHON. We chose these organizations to be involved ways that stuck to Kappas values and traditional philanthropy with child literacy and also to stay engaged in a world in a way that was productive with COVID and Racial Justice. For most of these organizations we raised money through virtual fundraising on social media or the 5K. We also donated our time through filming ourselves reading books to benefit Martha's Table.
=Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion = During recruitment training, we had breakout sessions where we talked about correct language, how to be inclusive, and how to be better sisters. Out philanthropy chair put together a fundraiser for many organizations such as the NCAAP and ACLU during the summer and our sisters supported this cause on their social media. We rose awareness on our social media and we also did a chapter presentation on race, discrimination, privilege, etc. and took part in a dialogue following the presentation.
Sesquicentennial Celebration
We celebrated Kappa's150th anniversary in our virtual chapter meeting. Our Education chair made a presentation and we learned about our founders, took a "which founder are you" quiz and also did a fun Kahoot to end the presentation! We all learned a lot about our chapter's history and that was reflected when we were able to answer the questions on the Kahoot quiz.
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==Highlights of 2021==
Chapter Summary
The Eta Tau Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma at Georgetown University welcomed 4 new members in the Spring of 2021 and 52 new members in Fall of 2021. They were all successfully initiated and have already contributed so much to our chapter. We held two successful signature philanthropy events (one raffle each semester) to raise money for Active Minds. We wanted to make sure that the transition from online to in person events between the Spring and the Fall went smoothly, and overall we were happy with the chapter’s excitement to return to in person events. By the end of the Fall, we were functioning almost exactly like we were pre-pandemic (although we had masks at most indoor events and occasional Zoom options).
Chapter Philanthropy We have supported many of the Georgetown campus community service initiatives by volunteering our own time for them, and we have raised money for a local organization called Martha’s Table. Gentrification-driven displacement and food deserts are a pressing issue in DC, and Martha’s Table is working to alleviate food insecurity in our city, which is why we feel strongly about their mission.
We held two raffles (one each semester) where we asked local businesses for donations and then sold raffle tickets for a chance to win these donated prizes. Chapter members buy tickets themselves and reach out to friends, family, campus organizations, and their social media community to sell tickets to the event. All profits go to Active Minds (we voted as a chapter to support Active Minds specifically).
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion We added a DEI chair for the 2021 Chapter Council and have begun incorporating DEI education into our chapter programming.
Operating in a Pandemic
In the Spring of 2021, Georgetown was completely virtual so we had all chapter meetings and sisterhood events virtually. In the Fall, we transitioned to in person chapter meetings and hybrid sisterhood events (at the beginning). By the end of the Fall of 2021, every event was happening in person with Covid modifications like capacity limits or masks.