Chapter Philanthropy
Annual Kick It with Phi Mu
This year, Gamma Kappa’s Philanthropy Chair Payton Weber wanted to “revamp and revive” our annual kickball tournament to benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. The kickball game was better than ever! This year, we held the tournament in its entirety in one day, at UNCW's Intramural Fields right on campus. Pizza was available for the players to keep their bellies full and there was even a build-your-own cold brew bar! Much of the $6,200 raised from Kick It came from local businesses within the Wilmington area, parents of Gamma Kappa members, as well as from the sale of raffle tickets. Our hope is to continue the tradition of the Kick It into next year and to continue to increase our contributions to CMNH annually.
"Dubthon"
Our chapter raised $19,000 for Duke Children's Hospital with a majority of funds going towards pediatric cancer research. Since the Gamma Kappa chapter of Phi Mu raises money for a hospital that is two hours away from our campus most of the members of our organization were never able to fully grasp the impact that we can make through fundraising. One of the most transformative aspects of this event for our chapter was that the members were able to meet kids, called "miracle children", that had chosen to share their stories about their experiences in Duke Children's Hospital. The experience of meeting these incredible kids and hearing their stories has dramatically changed Phi Mu's mindset when it comes to our philanthropy. DubThon was the event that brought our chapter members in direct contact with the people that we were helping.
On top of that, one of the main goals of DubThon was to create an event that would serve to bring together the UNCW community in a similar way that THON does for students at Penn State. In the future DubThon hopes to reach out even further into the campus community so that even more organizations can work together to fundraise as much money as possible. We are so proud of the work we have done with DubThon!
Check out below 30 reasons why CMN loves PHI MU!!!!
https://childrensmiraclenetworkhospitals.org/30-reasons-childrens-miracle-network-hospitals-loves-phi-mu/