This meeting resulted in the organization of the first inter-fraternity association and the first intergroup organization on college campuses. However, no major movements occurred from this meeting, and none would occur for another decade when Alpha Phi invited Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Chi Omega, and Chi Omega to a conference in Chicago on May 24, 1902, to set standards for collegiate sororities. In 1891, Kappa Kappa Gamma invited the other women's fraternities to Boston for a discussion on the challenges they collectively faced, which was the precursor to the National Panhellenic Conference. In 1890, the Beta Alpha chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma became the first sorority at the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, led by president Martha Bunting Moves Toward Panhellenic Today, it is published triennially through Watkins Printing Company. In 1882, Kappa Kappa Gamma was the first women's fraternity to publish The Key, a quarterly journal. Though the Beta and Gamma chapters failed to survive more than a few years, the Delta chapter became the fraternity's oldest continuously active chapter ( Alpha was temporarily closed in 1874 but later re-established) and contributed a great deal to the organization of the fraternity in its early years. The next year, the fraternity opened its Gamma chapter at Smithson College and Delta chapter at Indiana University. In 1871, the fraternity chartered its Beta chapter at nearby St. Although the groundwork of the organization began as early as 1869, the 1876 Convention voted to recognize Octoas the official Founders Day since no earlier charter date could be determined. On October 13, 1870, the founders publicized their intention to organize as a women's fraternity by entering the Monmouth Chapel, a public campus venue, wearing their golden key badges in their hair. A formal charter for the fraternity was drawn up by Stewart's father, who was an attorney in the state of Illinois. They chose a golden key as their badge and had badges crafted by Bennett's family jeweler for their official debut. The six founders met at Willit's home to begin work on establishing the Alpha chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma. They recruited three additional women, Anna Elizabeth Willits, Martha Louisa Stevenson, and Susan Burley Walker, to join in founding the fraternity. Stewart, Boyd, and Bennett met in the Amateurs des Belles Lettres Hall, a literary society of which the women were active members, to plan their new society. Bennett and Boyd decided to create a women's fraternity and sought members 'not only for literary work, but also for social development', beginning with their friend Mary Moore Stewart. In 1869, two students at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, Mary Louise Bennett and Hannah Jeannette Boyd, were dissatisfied with the fact that, while men enjoyed membership in fraternities, women had few equivalent organizations for companionship, support, and advancement, and were instead limited to literary societies. Kappa Kappa Gamma's headquarters from 1952 to 2018 at 530 E. It is a founding member of the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC), an umbrella organization that includes 26 American sororities.

It is sometimes referred to by its original designation, a women's fraternity, as it was founded before the term 'sorority' was coined.

It has a membership of more than 260,000 women, with 140 collegiate chapters in the United States and Canada and 307 alumni associations worldwide.

Kappa Kappa Gamma ( ΚΚΓ), also known simply as Kappa or KKG, is a collegiate sorority founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, United States. Mental Health Awareness, The Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation

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