The Northwestern University Dance Marathon 2013 raised a total of $1,214,632 benefitting the Danny Did Foundation and Evanston Community Foundation.
More than 1,000 undergraduate students registered to dance for NUDM 2013 held from March 8 to 10. The Danny Did Foundation, NUDM's primary beneficiary, is a non-for-profit organization that provides epilepsy awareness information.
The DM Finance Committee made the announcement Saturday night and presented a check for $741,394.10 to the Danny Did Foundation. DM presented a check of $82,377.12 to ECF.
Kappa Alpha Theta was the top small fundraising group with $18,030. "We're all really excited," said Weinberg sophomore Anna Schlessinger, a member of the team. "We're a smaller group so it's nice to get recognized." This was the first year the sorority was not paired up with a fraternity. The top fundraising group in the medium category was SAE-Tri-delt with $43,591.
In the large group category, DG-ZBT was the highest fundraising team once again, donating a total of $134,842. They surpassed their donation amount of $113,969.27 from last year.
"It means so much to me to know that all the stress and hard work we put into this will mean so much to people whose lives are affected by epilepsy," said ZBT philanthropy co-chair Regan Via. "This is amazing. Truly amazing. I've never felt prouder in my life.
Pike-Kappa came in second place with $69,823 and A Phi-Sigma Chi came in third with $59,663 for the category.
Sylvan Lane and Denise Lu contributed reporting.