Membership Vice President

GBM THEMES:

• Black Out Theme
• Mix & Match Theme
• Twin Theme
• Camo
• 1920’s - Gatsby
• Movie Theme
• Coordinate with your fam for extra points

GBM ACTIVITY:

• Joke telling competition: have groups of 2 one tells joke the other tries to keep water in their mouth
• Take out assassin - not enough participation, commotion, messy
• Chubby bunny
• Rap Battle
• Heads Up
• About a specific topic - appropriate

FAMILY STUFF:

• Family Challenge:
• Escape room, lazer tag, basketball, soccer, football, cook off,  
• Inactives that come are double points
• Donate clothes, canned food etc. for family points collect at the end of the semester do it per item or by weight
• Mail out cards for hospital kids and elderly homes   
• Gaming tournament:
• Every week change category for them to take a group picture (IC, service, PR)
• One family photo with the inactives at one event either on APO online or coordinated with the family head
• Take a picture with someone from another org
• Family Olympics: different events -- tournament: tug-of-war, relay race, joke-telling, capture of the flags
• Use family wars to encourage leadership development and participating in the chapter  

APPOINTED POSITIONS:

• Family head as an appointed position and has to have one event to bring the family together
• ICDC as an appointed position under special events  

MEMBERSHIP:

• Medical release form
• Academic and alumni chair budget before the semester starts
• Release the second week what all family challenges will be so they can plan
• Most leadership can get an award
• Brotherhood block about what to talk about and what to put on social media - have an alumni who has gone through job interviews
• Look at minutes to find out what the membership topic is  
• Communicate with PE and fundraising on how to fund banquet
• Every Sunday post the theme
• Have a brotherhood block about sexual violence prevention and tips training -- (for dress up things etc, have after brotherhood block -- also mix up alpha, phi, omega, pledges order to help involvement )
• Have a workshop on Robert’s Rules of Order (maybe brotherhood block too)
• Find out how to get DSK and other national awards -- national scholarships & grants
• Competitions where they wage points
• Application for people to get a scholarship (find a prompt) at least $500 for 3.0 students and 2.0 for $150

Alumni

Here is the thing about alumni, if they are putting the time in to help the chapter, then they want to see the chapter trying to help themselves.

First, to keep them engaged – send them an update email once a year.  Have your secretary or alumni chair write it and you proof it. Make sure there are a lot of pictures. They will appreciate that. It sounds like you are doing a good job here.

Two – have a fundraiser, and use the proceeds to contribute to the house fund.  Even if you raise 500 bucks, that will show them that you guys get it and that you guys care.  That will go a long way to keeping them motivated to keep up with the capital campaign.

Three – invite them to homecoming. They don’t have to show up, and you don’t have to do a lot for them.  Just make sure they know they are invited. You will get extra points and a lot better turn-out if you let them know whatever you have will be kid-friendly.

Four – take pride in the house. Make sure the alumni know that you appreciate what you have. Why would they be motivated to give you a nicer house if you don’t take care of the one you have? That makes no sense at all…

Five – Always, always, ALWAYS be sure the alumni know how much you appreciate them. Send thank you emails and letters. Recognize those alums who go above and beyond. Be sure they are appreciated. Sometimes this is the most important responsibility of being a leader.

Your chapter is very fortunate to be in this position. Not all alumni remain engaged after graduation. Be sure you appreciate them and realize how lucky you are.

Think of something that is mandatory and fun. Work? Nope. Class? Nope. And now you are trying to make your events mandatory and lump them in with those two losers????

That is your problem and your leadership challenge.

Realize that this is a difficult problem to grasp for people like you and me. We love our fraternity or sorority and do not understand why others don’t feel the same way. It frustrates us. The sooner we realize that everyone is looking for something different out of our organizations, the better equipped we’ll be to solve this problem.

Fortunately, the solution is actually very simple. Have events that your membership wants to attend and is looking forward to having. After all, it is much easier to get people to show up that way than to try to force them to attend events they don’t want to be at.

So how do you do that?

First, you must realize that as a leader your job is to serve your membership. You need to find out what they want out of the organization. Then, you need to provide they type of programs and events that they want.

Second, you need to program smarter. College students have a hundred different commitments on their time. By turning fraternity or sorority into another commitment you will be turning off your members. Plan fewer, but better, events to accomplish this.

Third, eliminate the events your membership dreads.  If you are getting poor attendance, then it isn’t worth the chapter’s time and energy.  Don’t waste type trying to make a loser work. Your time is too precious. Spend that time on events that your membership wants.

Finally, you need to get your members to have ownership in your programming. If every event is planned by the leadership team, it won’t take long before the membership becomes disinterested. Make it a point to have different brothers or sisters assume the leadership role for the success of different events. By delegating this responsibility, you are developing future leaders while creating a group of individuals that will be highly motivated to making the event a success.

• LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT:
• Leadership Development: Resume and linkedin workshops
• Leadership development for double points in family wars  
• Can get an award at national convention for finishing LEADS
• Membership Academy --  chapter members to evaluate their current membership program, reinforce what is already effective, and revise it to incorporate new techniques (how to maintain an increase in internal and external interest of the chapter)
• Membership University -- help chapters improve their existing programs by incorporating new techniques. Attendees will be challenged to evaluate their programs and gather ideas from fellow fraternity officers
• APO IMPACT
• APO LEADS
• Attendance sectionals, national convention, regionals
• CPR certification  
• Officer Transition* Resume Building & Interview Workshop Graduate School Application Workshop Personal Finance Workshop Life Skills Workshop Social Life after College Time Management* Goal Setting* Effective Note Taking & Study Skills* Effective Test Taking & Memory Skills*
• Discussions on how to transfer your skills and experience in Greek Life to a resume and into the “Real World”. The main goal of the program is preparing the students to be a desirable job candidate. This can be done with the help of Career Services, the campus Learning Center, the Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life and faculty
• Awards Academic Scholar of the Month or Semester The award can be announced at chapter meeting or Greek event and given a certificate and/or prize. The individual is nominated by their peers and voted on by Order of Omega members. It can be anyone who has achieved academic success over the past month or semester. Can be an incentive to the Study Hall for Greeks
• http://www.orderofomega.org/images/Chapter_Programming_Resources.pdf

MAIN IDEAS:

• Leadership
• Inactives
• Involvement
• Steven Diaz De Rivera: MVP 2014-2015
  As MVP, you are the devil's advocate. People will not like you hahaha
  But you have to be brave enough to set goals, build plans to achieve them, and stick to them even when the criticism gets loud
  Focus on one key thing as MVP: building as much quality into the chapter as possible with minimal cost and time spent by brothers
  How can I get brothers to improve as individuals and citizens but without taking up too much of their time, energy, or money?
  That's the question you'll always need to ponder, and to find the best answers to
  My interpretation was to focus on leadership development and to minimize the activities that attracted fuckboys or the unmotivated to join APO
  What were things you did to focus on leadership development ?
  

  Steven

  In doing that, we added value to people's lives, but would also solve the membership retention issue along with the lack of leadership in the chapter
  To focus on leadership development, I changed the questions on the active quiz to include more leadership development questions and less fraternity history; I reasoned that knowing fraternity history did nothing for us as leaders

  Aaron

  What are leadership questions ?
  

  Steven

  I also increased the passing score. That way, guessers and those who used non-leadership questions to get by on the quizzes wouldn't be able to pass; only those who studied the leadership questions and knew them would have the best chance at passing
  Like questions more about the leadership development programs
  I used the quizzes as advertising pitches for LEADS, membership academy, etc

  Aaron

  So like what is each program ?
  

  Steven

  LEADS and membership academy are the largest that nationals funds
  I don't remember all of them off the top of my head
  Amber Robinson: MVP 2015-2016
  Well, comittees worked but only if rose or myself pushed them along, a strong strong relationship with fundraiser (ppl lile free stuff and doin things 4 free) but its never really free we pay for it with money we worked for. Games were big but if Im honest try to have someone in the committe really be incharge of keeping the big games together its almost like taking on a second position, try to make gbm fun and efficient introduce new ideas and always try to out do whatever the best thing from the past was
  

  Amber

  If u reach for the stars and fail at least you will be among the clouds

  Aaron

  Thank you so much for all your advice
  

  Amber

  For sure lol if Im honest its all about knowing when to ask and when 2 just do, males sure u know what u want to achieve set a real goal like chapter retreat or something then spend ur term reaching it, everything else will fall into place it will prevent u from wondering around like a chicken with ur head cut off lol
  Membership
• VP
• Aaron Rodriguez
  Ashley Eng
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• Encouragement to attend and participate in events such as:
• APO LEADS & APO Impact
• Membership Academy & Membership University
• Sectionals, Regionals, & National Convention
• Inform members of Awards & Scholarships opportunities
• Linkedin and Resume Workshop
• Aaron
  • Public Relations: Winter 2015/Spring 2016 - Spring 2017
  • In-Active & Alumni Involvement
  
  
  • MCGC Delegate: Spring 2016 - Fall 2016
  
  
  • Rush Chair: Fall 2016
  
  
  • Benefit Concert Marketing Director
  
  
  • Got Benefit Concert as part of a Marketing 3950 Class (Social Marketing)   
  Ashley
  
  
  • Colorguard Co-Captain - 2014-2015
  
  
  • Jazz Band & Concert Band Section Leader - 2014-2016
  
  
  • Fundraising Chair Alhambra Key Club 2014-2015
  
  
  • Alpha Nu Pledge Class Historian - Fall 2016
  I have taken leadership positions in high school and would like to further develop leadership capabilities
  Membership Roles:
  Creativity and Ideas + Contacting: Ashley Eng
  Execution & Regulations: Aaron Rodriguez
  
  
  I dropped Academic chair because i was told that in order of having an apprenticeship with the treasurer, the position would need to be dropped. Treasurer apprenticeship would ideally help me become a better treasurer. However, upon further examination, I found that my talents would be better in the role of Membership Vice President and that I can create more ideas for Membership versus Treasurer.
  Main Ideas
  Leadership Development
• • In-Actives & Alumni to come out and be more involved
  • Family Competitions
  • Brotherhood Blocks
  • Having Alumni speak on APO life after graduation
  • Chapter Involvement
  • • Working with the Executive Committee
    • Pledge Educators & Interchapter - Association with IC Pledge Brothers (take a picture with an IC but must be a Pbro)
    • Fellowship & Alumni Relations - In-Actives and Alumni to come out to the large Fellowship events
    • Alumni Relations: Brotherhood Block having Alumni talk about their experiences
    • Public Relations - Take a picture with someone from another organization
    • Service - Create a Family Challenge based on donation collection    (cans, clothes cards for kids and elderly in the hospital)
    • Secretary - “Fun Fact of the week” within the minutes
    Chapter
  • Involvement
  • • Working with the Executive Committee (continuation)
    • Fundraising - Set amount of points for spending over the minimum
    • Sergeant at Arms - Workshop on Parliamentary Procedure and how to make a proposal, ‘Bylaw Jeopardy’
    • Award for Most Leadership Credit
    • More workshops:
    • Leadership Development
    • Career Enhancement
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