 Calendar of Events
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APRIL
04/01: April Fool's Day
04/01-03: Section 43/44 Conference
04/01-03: Section 31/46 Conference
04/06: APO IMPACT Live: Graduating Seniors
04/08-09: Section 76/77 Conference
04/14: APO IMPACT Live: Retention
04/15: Tax Deadline
04/15-17: Spring Youth Service Day
04/16: Rho Mu Reunion Luau
04/22: Good Friday
04/22: Earth Day
04/24: Easter
04/27: Alpha Beta Mu 25th Anniversary
MAY
05/01: Pledge Class Namesake Honoree Nominations Due
05/02: John Mack Scholarship Applications Due
05/02: Spring Youth Service Day Reports Due
05/08: Mother's Day
05/20-22: Membership Academy, Indianapolis, Indiana
05/30: Memorial Day
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Register for Summer Membership Academies
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Registration is now open for this summer’s Membership
Academy workshops. Membership Academy is a weekend-long skills course that
covers membership topics including recruitment, pledging, and retention. Alumni
staff provide attendees with hands-on training and education that can be taken
back and easily applied to their own chapters. Cost for Membership Academy is
$35, which includes a two-night hotel stay, course materials, all meals on
Saturday, as well as breakfast on Sunday. Dates and locations for the
Membership Academy workshops are:
May 20-22: Indianapolis, Indiana
June 3-5: Kittery, Maine
June 17-19: Dulles, Virginia
July 15-15: Houston, Texas
July 22-24: Woodland Hills, California
For more information and registration details for Membership
Academy, follow this link.
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National Bylaws and Ritual Books Available
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Hard copies of the updated National Bylaws and Ritual Books arrived in the office this week.
Click here to view a digital version of the National Bylaws...
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2011-12 Pledge Manuals Are Available
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Hard copies of the updated 2011-12 Pledge Manual are available for
order through the Fraternity website. The Pledge Manual is also
available in a PDF on the website.
Click here to order through the website...
Click here to view the digital version...
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Hours of Operation:
Monday-Friday 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. CST
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Dear Subscriber
Spring is finally here and with it comes great weather and the opportunity to get outside and provide service to our campus, community, fraternity and nation! Scope out the needs of your campus this spring to come up with new ways to provide leadership and service.
Keep in mind that Spring Youth Service Day is coming up April 15-17, 2011! Reports are due May 2. If your chapter hasn't started planning for this global service event in partnership with Youth Service America, be sure to check out the article below for more information!
Happy Spring!
Torch Topics Editorial Team
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March Video of the Month: Theta Chapter at the University of Virginia
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Here's a fantastic recruitment video from Theta Chapter at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville!
Is your chapter working
hard to create fun, informational and educational videos for recruitment,
etc.? Share your efforts with brothers across the nation by nominating
your video for the April Video of the Month. Simply post your video to
YouTube, then send a link to the Torch Topics Editorial Staff at publications@apo.org.
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Jump Start Service with Partnerships
| Does your chapter seem to be competing with other campus organizations and clubs for service events? Do you want to expand your service projects on campus? Collaborating with other organizations is beneficial to your chapter for a
variety of reasons. It provides more service to the campus, it expands
opportunities for leadership and making new friends, it can help boost
recruitment numbers, and it better connects the chapter to campus life.Click here to find out more about how your chapter can start working with other campus organizations...
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Congrats Youth Service Grant Recipients!
|  Congratulations to the following 26 chapters that received the 2010-11 Youth Service Grant. This grant gives chapters the funding they need to develop/conduct a service project that meets
that need and benefits local youth. The grant money helps
chapters cover the cost of items they need in order to successfully
perform the project. The Alpha Phi Omega Endowment Trust
facilitates the funding for this special program.
Click here to view the list of chapters...
For those chapters that received the grant and would like to announce the accomplishment to their local and campus news outlets, click here for a sample press release...
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Register NOW for Summer Serve Events
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Registration is now open for this summer’s SERVE workshops.
SERVE is the final course in APO LEADS, the Fraternity’s leadership development
program and focuses on management skills. Participants work in small groups
under the guidance of trained alumni staff to carefully plan a large-scale
service project, which can be taken back with them to their home chapters.
Brothers must have taken LAUNCH in order to participate in SERVE. The cost for
SERVE is $55 and includes a two-night hotel stay, course materials, all meals
Saturday, as well as breakfast on Sunday morning. Dates and locations for the
SERVE weekends are:
June 24-26: Indianapolis, Indiana July 22-24: Austin, Texas
For more information and registration details for SERVE, follow this link .
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Membership Retention Program Tool
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The Membership Retention Program is a tool designed to take
chapters step-by-step through the process of creating a retention plan.
Retention, as opposed to recruitment, is about asking “How do we keep the
members we already have?” Using the Membership Retention Program, chapters have
the opportunity to assess their retention issues, diagnose those issues, make a
plan to overcome their retention obstacles, implement their ideas, and evaluate
the effectiveness of the changes they made.The completion of the Membership Retention Program should
result in a solid plan the chapter can revisit and revise as frequently as they
need to. Click here to view the Membership Retention Program Tool...
Have questions about this new plan? Join us for a special APO IMPACT
Live session to discuss the Retention Plan, and answer questions on how
to use it. The session will be held Monday, April 18, at 9 p.m.
Eastern Time. To register go to:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/470646619
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Start Planning TODAY for Spring Youth Service Day: April 15-17, 2011
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Spring Youth Service Day 2011 is right around the corner... Has your chapter started planning your project? SYSD is Alpha Phi Omega's way of participating in the world's largest service event - Global Youth Service Day. In 2010, APO chapters provided more than 43,000 hours of service with and for youth. What will your chapter do this year to make a difference in the life of a child? Click here to access service resources and the 2011 SYSD Handbook.
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