Webinars

PROVIDING INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE ON TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THOSE INVOLVED IN FRATERNITY AND SORORITY OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

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TOP 10 MISTAKES IN MANAGING GREEK HOUSING

Are you doing everything you can to generate an appropriate revenue stream and preserve your housing asset? Allan Lutes discusses the top 10 mistakes we see chapters make that keep them from achieving greater success.

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3 POST-PANDEMIC TRENDS PREDICTED TO AFFECT 2022

The post-pandemic collegiate atmosphere has created opportunities and new challenges for fraternity and sorority leaders. Our houses may be open, but COVID has left its mark.

Join us as two industry experts, Allan Lutes, President of Alpha Fraternity Management, and Bill Reeder, President of Campus Cooks, share their thoughts on trends that are changing housing operations for today's fraternities and sororities. We'll touch on:

  1. How supply chain issues will affect chapter budgets, operations, and planning for 2022/23.
  2. How the Greek housing, dining, and overall expectations have evolved over the past 5 years and tips to handle today’s students.
  3. How the decline of alumni volunteers and the loss of a “live-in class” have impacted chapter traditions and institutional knowledge.

We'll wrap up with a discussion of one of the biggest challenges facing house corporations and facility directors.

This webinar offers important information, advice, and tools for anyone tasked with managing a house -- advisors, alumni, alumnae, chapter presidents and treasurers.

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EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & PREVENTION

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure! Is your chapter prepared for an emergency? We're all pretty good about dealing with common emergencies like a fire, water leaks -- and we'll talk about them. But were you prepared for COVID-19? Do you know how to avoid a financial emergency? Would you know what to do in a situation that takes your kitchen down or how to avoid a kitchen emergency altogether? Join us for this fast-paced webinar for lots of helpful advice from Alpha Fraternity Management and Campus Cooks.

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A YEAR-END IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE

December 31st is right around the corner and there's a lot to be done between now and then. Are you ready?

Join Alpha Fraternity Management and Columns Fundraising to review the activities you need to be taking now to ensure success in 2021. We'll talk about where you should be with leases, budgets, capital planning, how to shore up reserves, and what your year-end fundraising push should look like. We'll also spend some time on contingency planning… What if your campus goes/stays all remote in the spring? What if you have an empty house?

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RESTORING THE COMPETITIVE HOUSING ADVANTAGE

Competition posed by other campus housing options is greater than ever. College dormitories and new luxury apartments provide amenities that college students and parents desire. However, fraternity and sorority housing programs can provide competitive advantages that students want.

Join Alpha Fraternity Management and Columns Fundraising to learn how to create and deliver the competitive advantages that will keep chapter house occupancy high, provide your members with valuable skills, advance your group’s mission and deliver a better member experience.

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CREATING A POSITIVE CHAPTER CULTURE

Creating a positive culture within your chapter does not happen by accident.

Join Plaid, Columns Fundraising, and Alpha Fraternity Management to explore how chapter culture develops and hear about today’s best practices for approaching and implementing a successful culture change program developed through advanced motivational and behavioral research on Greek members and Gen Z students across the country.

You’ll leave with proven strategies that you can employ to create a better member experience, improve recruitment, and engage alumni.

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NAVIGATING THE NEW NORMAL WHEN EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS

Creating a Sustainable Fraternity that will Thrive in a COVID-19 World

Sororities and fraternities are facing a new normal with additional housing safety practices and constrained cash. As we move through the summer and fall, this can be an opportunity to develop a new strategic plan that can result in long-term success. Chapters will need to focus on the general operation of the house and, most importantly, on improving the safety and livability of the building and the housing experience. And this takes cash!

Columns Fundraising and Alpha Fraternity Management have partnered to address how to navigate through the COVID-19 crisis to set your chapter up for success into the future.

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COVID-19: STRATEGIES FOR FRATERNITY HOUSING

Join Alpha Fraternity Management's principal, Allan Lutes, as he covers topics such as move out, new cleaning protocols, food service operations, operating policies for when chapter house re-open, financial strategies (member payments, rent, future leases, cash flow, and financial planning) and EIDL loans.

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MANAGING THE CHAOS OF COVID-19

Join AFM's operations manager, Bill Horner, to hear how others are facing the challenges of managing operations through the early shut-down on campuses and the ensuing fallout.

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OWNER WEB ACCESS FOR CHAPTER OFFICERS

This webinar is open to clients only. Please contact your Campus Manager.

November 3, 6-6:15 pm ET

This 15-minute webinar will provide you with a tour of Alpha Fraternity Management's online reporting tool, Owner Web Access. Learn how to quickly and easily navigate the dashboard and find the information on delinquency reporting you need to manage your chapter 24/7.

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OWNER WEB ACCESS FOR HOUSE CORPORATIONS

This webinar is open to clients only. Please contact your Campus Manager.

October 20th, 7:00 - 7:30 pm ET

In just 30 minutes, you'll get a tour of Alpha Fraternity Management's online reporting tool, Owner Web Access. Learn how to quickly and easily navigate the dashboard and find the information you need to manage your chapter 24/7.

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DKE CHAPTER TREASURER TRAINING

This webinar is restricted to Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter officers

July 23, 7:00 - 8:00 pm ET

Join Alpha Fraternity Management's principal, Allan Lutes, along with Travis Tafoya, DKE Director of Education, as we explore the role of a DKE chapter treasurer. You'll walk away with an understanding of your responsibilities as an officer and learn to budget your chapter's income and expenses with a simple budgeting tool specifically developed for DKE chapters.

This 1-hour webinar is open to all DKE chapter officers.

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CREATING YOUR COVID-19 ACTION PLAN

This webinar is restricted to the alumni leaders and chapter officers of AFM clients

June 16, 7:00 - 8:00 pm ET

COVID-19 is changing the way we interact and operate at the chapter house. In this webinar, Allan Lutes and Bill Horner will recommend and discuss best practices for housing and chapter operations. Topics include strategies to prevent the transmission of COVID-19, options for cleaning and food service, procedures if a member becomes ill, and developing a communication plan.

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