Your Impact
We are thankful for you!
You provide scholarships, professional development, leadership training
and so much more.
$886,855
in scholarships awarded
You supported more KDs than ever before for the 2023-2024 academic year.
$306,249
in educational &
leadership grants
You ensure KDs receive customized, quality personal and professional training.
$28,410
in Alumnae Crisis and
KiDs grants
You offer a helping hand to sisters in need and impact our local communities.
Support in college and for a lifetime
Your investment results in opportunities that create more confident sisters, encourage growth, and build women who are leaders of our world.
Your Foundation Involvement
Your Foundation Involvement
There are many ways you can get involved with the Kappa Delta Foundation! Because of your participation, KDs benefit from important scholarships, professional development and leadership opportunities.
- Submit a KD Foundation seal design
- Become a loyal donor
- Volunteer on an application review committee
- Join the Dorothea Cavin Society
- Establish a scholarhship
- Contribute to an education and technology fund
Submit a KD Foundation seal design
The first Kappa Delta Foundation seals were distributed in 1925 and since 1928, a talented Kappa Delta sister has designed the seal. The winning artist’s design will be printed on 1.4 million stickers used by Kappa Deltas to lovingly secure the envelopes of their winter cards and mail. The artist will receive national recognition as her design and bio will be shared with more than 200,000 sisters in The Angelos and across KD’s social media platforms to tens of thousands of followers in addition to a monetary prize of $100.
Become a loyal donor
Kappa Delta Foundation donors are recognized with prestigious giving societies. Our donor listing can be viewed online, here.
Sisterhood Society: The Sisterhood Society is the Kappa Delta Foundation’s annual giving society. Individual gifts of $1,000 ($84 monthly) or more to the KD Forever Fund are recognized with membership in this prestigious giving society.
Cumulative Giving Societies
White Rose: $5,000-$9,999
Pearl: $10,000-$24,999
Emerald: $25,000-$49,999
Diamond: $50,000-$99,999
AOT: $100,000-$499,999
Founders: $500,000+
Donors in the Emerald giving society and above are recognized for their generous contributions on the donor wall located at Kappa Delta National Headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, in The Angelos, Kappa Delta’s national magazine each biennium, and are invited to attend special events at Kappa Delta’s national conferences. Donors may also request to remain anonymous.
Volunteer on an application review committee
Each year, the foundation offers KD sisters and communities support in the areas of education, leadership and philanthropy; the foundation is proud to provide this support through scholarships, grants and awards. Our application review committees play a critical role in awarding these opportunities. View our committee volunteers here.
Want to apply for the Kappa Delta Foundation’s Application Review Committees?
Join the Dorothea Cavin Society
The Dorothea Cavin Society was created to honor and celebrate donors who have pledged to support Kappa Delta beyond their lifetimes, helping fund our leadership, educational and philanthropic endeavors. You can join this prestigious group of Kappa Delta’s loyal donors, too!
Your planned gift can be a significant addition to Kappa Delta’s long-term financial strength and the foundation’s ability to meet the future growth and opportunities of Kappa Delta. Join the Dorothea Cavin Society and help the foundation continue to provide scholarships, grants and educational programming to our members. For more information, contact the foundation.
Establish a scholarship
Scholarships may be gifted as groups or as an individual. A scholarship endowment is established to last forever. The minimum gift for endowing a scholarship is $30,000, but scholarships may also be endowed at any amount at or above $30,000.
You may establish an endowment through a pledge lasting up to 5 years. Endowment assets are professionally invested and are reviewed annually to determine the specific amount that may be awarded to KD women pursuing academic degrees. Contact the foundation to establish an endowment today.
Contribute to an education and technology fund
An education and technology grant fund is a fund managed by the foundation that allows alumnae to contribute tax-deductible donations that will later be used for the construction or improvement of a chapter house. These funds may only be used for construction or improvement related to the spaces in the house that are used strictly for educational purposes, like a study room or a library.
The local house corporation manages the fundraising efforts for these projects. After the house corporation has established the fund with the foundation and the fund has received contributions, the house corporation requests a withdrawal to pay for educational- or technology-related expenses.
Is your local house corporation planning renovations for the chapter house?
Submit a KD Foundation seal design
The first Kappa Delta Foundation seals were distributed in 1925 and since 1928, a talented Kappa Delta sister has designed the seal. The winning artist’s design will be printed on 1.4 million stickers used by Kappa Deltas to lovingly secure the envelopes of their winter cards and mail. The artist will receive national recognition as her design and bio will be shared with more than 200,000 sisters in The Angelos and across KD’s social media platforms to tens of thousands of followers in addition to a monetary prize of $100.
Become a loyal donor
Kappa Delta Foundation donors are recognized with prestigious giving societies. Our donor listing can be viewed online, here.
Sisterhood Society: The Sisterhood Society is the Kappa Delta Foundation’s annual giving society. Individual gifts of $1,000 ($84 monthly) or more to the KD Forever Fund are recognized with membership in this prestigious giving society.
Cumulative Giving Societies
White Rose: $5,000-$9,999
Pearl: $10,000-$24,999
Emerald: $25,000-$49,999
Diamond: $50,000-$99,999
AOT: $100,000-$499,999
Founders: $500,000+
Donors in the Emerald giving society and above are recognized for their generous contributions on the donor wall located at Kappa Delta National Headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, in The Angelos, Kappa Delta’s national magazine each biennium, and are invited to attend special events at Kappa Delta’s national conferences. Donors may also request to remain anonymous.
Volunteer on an application review committee
Each year, the foundation offers KD sisters and communities support in the areas of education, leadership and philanthropy; the foundation is proud to provide this support through scholarships, grants and awards. Our application review committees play a critical role in awarding these opportunities. View our committee volunteers here.
Want to apply for the Kappa Delta Foundation’s Application Review Committees?
Join the Dorothea Cavin Society
The Dorothea Cavin Society was created to honor and celebrate donors who have pledged to support Kappa Delta beyond their lifetimes, helping fund our leadership, educational and philanthropic endeavors. You can join this prestigious group of Kappa Delta’s loyal donors, too!
Your planned gift can be a significant addition to Kappa Delta’s long-term financial strength and the foundation’s ability to meet the future growth and opportunities of Kappa Delta. Join the Dorothea Cavin Society and help the foundation continue to provide scholarships, grants and educational programming to our members. For more information, contact the foundation.
Establish a scholarship
Scholarships may be gifted as groups or as an individual. A scholarship endowment is established to last forever. The minimum gift for endowing a scholarship is $30,000, but scholarships may also be endowed at any amount at or above $30,000.
You may establish an endowment through a pledge lasting up to 5 years. Endowment assets are professionally invested and are reviewed annually to determine the specific amount that may be awarded to KD women pursuing academic degrees. Contact the foundation to establish an endowment today.
Contribute to an education and technology fund
An education and technology grant fund is a fund managed by the foundation that allows alumnae to contribute tax-deductible donations that will later be used for the construction or improvement of a chapter house. These funds may only be used for construction or improvement related to the spaces in the house that are used strictly for educational purposes, like a study room or a library.
The local house corporation manages the fundraising efforts for these projects. After the house corporation has established the fund with the foundation and the fund has received contributions, the house corporation requests a withdrawal to pay for educational- or technology-related expenses.
Is your local house corporation planning renovations for the chapter house?
See your gifts in Action
Watch the foundation video to learn more about the impact of your gifts.
Every gift is an investment in our sisterhood.
As we press forward to a greater and better Kappa Delta, our work – powered by your support – will be more important than ever. The truth is, the Kappa Delta Foundation exists for, and only because of, you. Without you, vital opportunities and programs would not be possible.
We hope you will continue your support and ensure Kappa Delta women have the tools they need to not only excel in college, but for a lifetime.
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