Committee Updates

Committee Updates 2022-2023

Meetings

So far the meetings team has had a great start to the year! We are currently trying to get locations selected for Summer Leadership Retreat and preparing for our Fall Board meeting! We are excited to have a full year of hosting in-person events and celebrating the joy of connecting with each other again. The hope is to continue to work on creating an inclusive committee and allowing all members to be involved. Chairs: Marysa Mitrano, Nicole Ransden Committee Members: Robyn Sarette, Nicole Hallahan

Merchandise

The Merchandise Committee was hard at work this summer. We were able to open up our pop-up store after the spring semester ended and were thrilled to get some Kappa swag out to many of you. This fall, we have been working on a more permanent online store solution so that hopefully in the future you will be able to order gear on demand! In the meantime, we plan to open up the pop-up store again soon so that you’ll be able to get some shopping done for the holidays. As always, please feel free to reach out if you have any ideas or suggestions for any future merch you’d like to see! Chairs: Christina Rose, Nicole Ransden Committee Members: Chrissy Ryan, Angelica Masser, Allesyn Wesner

Internal Materials

The internal materials committee is getting ready to take a deep dive into our National documents. This year, our focus is updating our documents, ensuring our language matches throughout, and updating everything to align with current standards. Chair: Rebecca Fransman Committee Members: Marysa Mitrano, Courtney Stevens, Amanda Roberge, Nicole Ransden Women's Issues

This year, the Women’s issues committee is excited to bring awareness to social issues, as well as collaborate with other committees in an effort to support women and highlight their contributions to the world around them. One example of this can be seen on social media, where we have dedicated posts to women who have dedicated their lives to making a difference. Going forward this year, we hope to continue to use social media to highlight women’s issues. We also hope to collaborate with other committees, such as the philanthropy committee, to broaden the reach of the women’s issues committee to make a greater impact. Overall, we have a great team volunteering on this committee and we are excited to see where the year takes us! Chairs: Nicole Hallahan, Lily Gibbons Committee Members: Karlee Paradis, Robyn Sarette, Haley Sullivan, Lauren Porter, Isabella Murphy

Awards

We are excited to be revamping some of the descriptions of our awards this year! We want to make sure all awards are achievable by our chapters and want to encourage that they can apply for them all. We also want to make sure we are working on getting all chapters to apply for awards! The committee is also planning on adding a new award that will honor sisters for their individual philanthropy hours! Chairs: Marysa Mitrano Committee Members: Chrissy Ryan, Angelica Masser, Karlee Paradis, Robyn Sarette, Haley Sullivan, Isabella Murphy, Jayley Handley

Media and Marketing

The Media and Marketing committee is compromised of the chairperson, webmaster, social media coordinator, the Kappa Quill, and several members. We are essentially the face of our organization. We strive to create content

that is relevant to our membership by working with other committees and the executive board. Our website welcomes potential new members and advises parents about our organization. We highlight awards, the National Board, and our history. It is also a great source of information for our active membership and alumnae. Our webmaster keeps the site updated and modern. Our social media coordinator works with other committees to highlight any upcoming events, featured programs, and raises awareness for causes. We also love to repost what our chapters have been up to and showcase their hard work or fun outings. The Kappa Quill is a bi-annual publication that is available to all! Our team of content developers, editors, and designers make this wonderful magazine come to life. A hard copy edition is handed out at our annual convention in the spring. The Media and Marketing committee could not function without all hands on deck! The support of all members of this committee is highly valued. Chair: Robyn Sarette Webmaster: Allesyn Wesner Social Media: Robyn Sarette, Rebecca Fransman Kappa Quill: Lauren Porter, Christina Rose, Nicole Hallahan Committee Member: Angelica Masser

National Alumnae Association Relations

The National Alumnae Association Relations chair serves as the point of contact for matters related to NAA collaboration, fields concerns and recommendations, and serves as a National Board representative at their annual meeting. There are no formal updates for this committee. The NAA meeting was held on Saturday, November 5, 2022, in Portland, Maine. Chair: Courtney Stevens

National Philanthropy

The philanthropy committee has been working hard at developing and making progress on short-term and longterm goals. With the vote for a continued partnership with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, strategic thinking about how to best maximize this partnership for the benefit of our membership and respective campuses and the nonprofit and its mission is of utmost importance. We are supporting more chapters in hosting It’s Real: College Mental Health on their campuses with the training, speaker, food, and merchandise all funded by our AFSP chapter. We have a goal of getting five chapters to host this as an annual event on their campuses. We have two chapters planning Campus Walks on their campuses and many others joined a local Community Walk this fall. Our goal is to have every chapter involved in one of these two opportunities annually. Behind the scenes, we have rolled out new service hour parameters to help us better track and measure the impact of our organization, monitor growth within and between chapters, and introduce a new individual service hour award. We continue to support chapters in utilizing GreekTrack for service hour tracking and helping them plan service events when they need support or ideas. We have done a complete roll-out of utilizing AFSP’s DonorDrive fundraising platform to better align with best practices in philanthropy and support the utilization of social media fundraisers that will be tied back to our organization. We’ve offered a philanthropy chair orientation providing training on service hours, DonorDrive, resources available from the AFSP, and ideas for both service and fundraising events. The philanthropy committee also leads the board in annual fundraising of $2,000 for the AFSP. We’ve already surpassed that with just our first fundraiser, Pie-a-Board-Member, at SLR. We are also committed to promoting mental health and supporting suicide prevention. We primarily do this through collaboration with our Media & Marketing committee in the form of blogs and social media posts. We hope to roll out mental health coffee chats where we can provide actives a space to share what’s going on, check in with other members for support, and have discussions. We are encouraging actives to take advantage of all the resources they have available to them from the philanthropy committee and our AFSP chapter. This includes funding for mental health events and fundraisers, AFSP supplies and merchandise, free trainings with facilitators, support in planning events, promoting the mental health of your chapters, and reinvesting resources into suicide prevention on your campuses. Chair: Lauren Porter Committee: Karlee Paradis, Isabella Murphy, Courtney Stevens, Amanda Roberge