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It's a great start you have there. Now, you'd have to work tactfully in order to actually get the rest of your chapter on-board, but one of the most effective ways to do that is to start asking them what they honestly want to see. I'd be very surprised if everyone just answered: "we're good as is, party on Wednesday?"
Once you've gotten that down, it's time to start doing things with low entry barriers. For example, if you just approached some place and volunteered to do community service, it'd be very absurd for them to reject you no matter who you are or what you've done in the past. Same thing applies to having study sessions, etc.
Since I co-founded a new chapter on my campus, we actually had to build a reputation up from nothing. Here are a few main things that really helped:
- Lots of community service. We hold a 5-8hr event every other week, and each member is required to do a certain amount of hours each semester
- Participating in other orgs' philantropy events
- Offering public study sessions and tutoring (c'mon, there's gotta be some academically strong people in your fraternity)
- Having a presence in several on-campus activities (eg. winning a Rube Goldberg contest did wonders for us in terms of the type of publicity we wanted)
As for holding an event with a sorority: hold off on the parties until later.
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