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Philanthropy

At Kappa Delta, we love giving back to the community and offering a lending hand to those in need.

We also proudly support our four national philanthropies:

Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA)

Girl Scouts of America
American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Research Awards
Children’s Hospital of Richmond, Virginia

shamrock

Since 1981, Kappa Delta has supported the child abuse prevention efforts of Prevent Child Abuse America, founded by a Kappa Delta, the late Donna Stone (Lambda-Northwestern). Known nationally as Kappa Delta's "Shamrock Event," each year, thousands of KDs in hundreds of communities nationwide join forces in a collective effort to raise money for national and local child abuse prevention efforts. Shamrock Events have been held annually since 1984 and are as varied and creative as the groups that sponsor them. Since the Shamrock Event's inception, Kappa Delta has collected over $5 million and has donated nearly $1.5 million to Prevent Child Abuse America.

In 1998, Kappa Delta began its national collaboration with the Girl Scouts of the USA in order to lend hearts and hands to young women everywhere. With this partnership, KD became the first and only NPC group to adopt Girl Scouts as a national philanthropy.

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Here at the University of Central Florida, we take pride in two of our large philanthropies, Kappa Delta’s Shakedown Dance Competition and the Kappa Delta Shamrock Paintball tournament. Our dance competition is a big hit every fall and is the largest philanthropy held on campus. In fact, it has gained such popularity that we had to move the event to UCF’s brand new arena this year. In just this past year, we have raised over $10,000 for Prevent Child Abuse. Our paintball tournament was new this year but definetly a big hit as well. Everyone seemed to love it, we raised great amounts of money, and we can't wait to see it grow in the future.

We also enjoy reaching out and helping the Orlando community. We have participated in events such as Relay For Life, Give Kid's The World, Make a Wish Foundation, the Walk to Cure Diabetes, UCF's Knighthon, and many different 5K's. We have even volunteered at different church festivals, adopted girl scout troops, and love to be around kids. If you are an organization in need of volunteers please contact us at kd@mail.ucf.edu to see if we can help support you.

At Kappa Delta, we greatly enjoy participating in other organization's philanthropies.

Some of our previous awards include:

1^st Place: Alpha Delta Pi's Cheers for Charity 2009

1^st Place: Zeta Tau Alpha's New Member Lipsync 2009

1^st Place: Alpha Tau Omega’s Rock the Wreath 2008

1^st Place: Delta Tau Delta's Big Little Challenge

1^st Place: Alpha Delta Pi's Cheers for Charity 2007

1^st Place: Pi Beta Phi’s Rock the Arrow 2007

1^st Place: Beta Theta Pi’s Barbeque 2007

1^st Place: Lambda Chi Alpha’s Watermelon Bust 2007

2^nd Place: Zeta Tau Alpha’s New Member Lip Sync 2007

2^nd Place: TKE's Rock and Jock Kickball Tournament 2007

This year, Kappa Delta decided to publicly "Go Green" and start a large campaign around campus. Because it is a new idea, we are still brainstorming ideas of what we can do to instill an eco-friendly environment, but so far, we have set up recycle bins all over our house and in the fraternity houses, are proudly using recyclable grocery bags, and went to Cocoa Beach to do a beach clean-up. At Kappa Delta, green is the new black!

Beach Clean-Up