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Our chapter chose these organizations due to their prevalence in the Dartmouth Community. These events are campus wide and have garnered support from our chapter for several years. Additionally, one of our sisters, Summer Hammond, was a consistent participant in Relay for Life events and encouraged many of our sisters to participate with her this past year.
==Highlights of 2017==
Our Chapter Council has discussed how we hope to foster sisterhood through organic, supportive relationships among members through things such as family lineages, Women of KKG Panel (now termly), sisterhood breakfast, Sister of the Week, tributes, FaculTEA and regular sisterhood outings and events. We have worked to improve our family lineage procedures in order to bolster bonding between upperclasswomen and new memebrs. From last year, we have continued to increase freshman outreach and community engagement. We also hope to eventually open our space for educational programming in order to foster stronger relationships with others on campus. We also are looking to increase the diversity of our sisterhood, and have had open discussions about diversity both on within our sisterhood and with the larger campus in the hopes of making Kappa an even more inclusive and safe environment, both for our current sisters and the campus populace at large.
This spring, in memory one of our sisters, Summer Hammond, who passed in the Summer of 2015, we decided, with the help of her family, to organize and run a 4v4 soccer tournament in her memory. All proceeds from this event went to her memorial foundation, the Summer's Way Foundation, which supports childhood cancer research and is particularly focused on providing support to families facing Rhabdomyosarcoma. It was an incredibly successful event, and we were able to raise $4,888.53 for Summer's foundation. We hope that this fundraiser will become an annual event. In May, we helped run and all participated in the second annual Memorial Challenge, which is a campus-wide athletic event in memory of two students athletes in the class of 2016 who passed in the winter of 2015; one of these students was a former Kappa, Blaine Steinberg.
Additionally, after the devastational aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, this fall we organized a donation drive to send to the Houston area as aid.
The Moving Dartmouth Forward Initiative is still in effect and has been since 2015. The main goal of this system was to cut down on destructive behavior on our campus and to make Dartmouth a safer and more inclusive environment. Since the spring, hard alcohol has been banned on campus and in compliance with this new policy, we have hosted panels on safe alcohol consumption at Dartmouth with both sisters and administrators. Additionally, we have hosted a diversity panels in order to foster inclusivity and understanding within our house.
Each year we have had sisters participate in the Prouty Fundraiser for the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, the CHad Hero 5k/half marathon, Relay for Life, and the Selamta non-profit. Additionally, each year we have sisters participating in the DREAM mentoring program, the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth Program, and the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. For the past two years, sisters have participated in the Memorial Challenge, an event focused on collective exercise in memory of two student athletes, one of which was a Kappa, Blaine Steinberg.
Our chapter chose these organizations due to their prevalence in the Dartmouth Community. These events are campus wide and have garnered support from our chapter for several years. We also feel it is important to support causes that are in memory of our sisters we have lost over the last few years, such as Summer's tournament and Blaine's Memorial Challenge, to honor their memories and support their families after their sudden passings.
We meet in the chapter room of our sorority house, the largest room in the house. It is a completely open space with furniture that we can either place in a formal manner, or push to the sides of the room for sisterhood bonding activities.
==Highlights of the 2020s:==
