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Kappa Alpha Theta
Theta is an international organization with college and alumnae chapters throughout the US and Canada. The Fraternity is a non profit corporation, with Headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Fraternity’s philanthropic arm, the Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation, supports the Fraternity’s educational programs and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). The Foundation annually awards more than $450,000 in graduate and undergraduate scholarships to members through approximately 200 scholarships each year.
Theta Ironbrawl
Kappa Alpha Theta will be holds an annual philanthropy which raises money for CASA- Court Appointed Special Advocates. The week is filled with activities that anyone can participate in to help raise money for this great cause. The list below provides the schedule of events that happen.
Monday-Coin collection starts and proceeds through Sunday.
Tuesday- Bowling competition at the MU bowling center from 6-8 for fraternities that have signed up and have made a team.
Wednesday- Men of steel competition at dixon from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Each fraternity selects two men to participate in either the sit up competition or bench press competition. Also Mr. CASANOVA is in Milam Hall from 6 p.m to 9 p.m. Each fraternity selects one member who is well rounded from their house to participate in a variety of small events.
Friday- A bar b que will be held at Kappa Alpha Theta. Free food will be provided upon a $2 charge for a ticket to the bar b que.
Saturday- This is the last day of our philanthropy which is an all day football tournament for the fraternities to participate in.
Recognition Awards
Lindsey Wismer- Oregon State Greek woman of the year in 2006.
Best Choreography- All Univeristy Sing (Mom's Weekend)in 2006
Kappa Alpha Theta- 1st in grades the last 5 out of 6 terms.
Sigma Chi Derby Days- 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 winners of their philanthropy that supports Doernbecher Children’s hospital.
C.A.S.A. "Court Appointed Special Advocates"
This is currently Kappa Alpha Theta's Philanthropy and has been since 1989. This philanthropy gives the children a voice in the court systems. In the United States today, over one half of our children growing up are in a foster care facility. This is only because they can not safely live in their homes with their families. They make sure that abused and neglected children find a way to get into safe and secure homes so that every child can have a safe and permanent place to live. To this date Kappa Alpha Theta has donated more that $800,000 dollars to the C.A.S.A program.
Many people volunteer throughout the year. There are local and state offices all throughout the United States. If you would like to find out what you can do for C.A.S.A. you can go to www.nationalcasa.org and sign up to volunteer. Every year in Corvallis the local C.A.S.A. office does a C.A.S.A. fun run. It gets the community involved and is a great way to give to the charity if you don't have the time for anything else.
This year we added many new events to our philanthropy so that we could donate more money than usual. We raised a total of $2000.00 this year and donated it all to C.A.S.A. so that we could give the children a voice in the courts.
