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In 2019, Kappa Kappa Gamma’s Epsilon Nu chapter at Vanderbilt University grew as both a sisterhood and a liaison to the Vanderbilt and Nashville greater community. Our annual philanthropy event, Kappa Kappa Gala raised $6000, the most money in our chapter’s history, for Reading is Fundamental, our national philanthropy, and TAP, our local philanthropy. Our sisters donated books and money as well as our time through the community. Three days a week, sisters spent time tutoring and mentoring children in public schools in Nashville. Our Kappa Kookout in the spring raised over $4000 for our philanthropies. This January, the Epsilon Nu chapter welcomed 39 new members to our chapter. We could not have gotten this amazing new member class without the hard work of recruitment chair Dana Rowe. To celebrate our incredible new pledge class, our Bid Day theme was Kappa Wonderland. We had so much fun on Bid Day celebrating and dancing with our new member class! Our hardworking and intelligent sisters had one of the highest average GPAs in the Vanderbilt Panhellenic community. We are so proud of our sisterhood, involvements, and academics and strive to continue our legacy as a chapter.
==Highlights of 2020s2020:==
'''Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion'''
The chapter created a list of action items moving forward with recruitment this year to ensure we are more inclusive and open to as many new ideas as possible. These action items ranged from financial inclusivity, diversity and inclusion measures, as well as many other items to move our chapter toward a more socially inclusive environment. We added an official DEI officer and posted awareness of our actions and steps moving forward through social media campaigns.
'''Philanthropy:'''
Epsilon Nu supports Book’em, the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation, as well as The After School Program. Our chapter has supported these three organizations for several years now. The After School Program and Book’em encourage children in the Nashville area to independently read and work hard in school. Our chapter is highly encouraging of raising the literacy rates in Nashville Metro areas, and we work with these two organizations to do exactly that. Also, we support the KKG Foundation to support our sisters in times of need.
'''Sesquicentennial Celebration'''
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