12th District 2012 District Meeting Indian Wells, ca may 31-June 3, 2012 Hosted by Pi Rho Chapter District Reports Manual

Southwest Area Representative

1. 
   SW Area Meeting: The Southwest Area meeting was held on Saturday, March 3^rd and was hosted by Delta Alpha Alpha Chapter in Tucson, Arizona.
   
2. 
   Southwest Area Social Action Event: The Southwest Area Chapter held its social action project on Saturday, March 3^rd in Tucson, Arizona. The Brothers of the SW Area came together and participated in a national mentoring certification program. Bro. Judge Ronald A. Wilson, of Delta Alpha Alpha, led this four-hour national certification program. Bro. Wilson engaged the Brotherhood through a PowerPoint presentation and discussion. Approximately 19 Brothers were certified.
   
3. 
   Future Goals:
   
   1. 
      The Basileis of the SW Area have begun discussions on creating a SW Area Data Bank. This Data Bank will assist the Chapters with information sharing. Each Chapter has created forms, policies, practices, and procedures that help the Chapter run more effectively and efficiently. The data bank will be a repository of information that each Chapter might utilize to save time in creating something that another Chapter has already created and perfected for its use.
      
   2. 
      The leadership will discuss successful ways to develop and increase long-term relationships with corporate sponsors.
      

The SW Area Chapters are very committed to making an impact in their various communities and their larger state. Obviously, these Chapters will be completing the Mandated Programs in various ways. The following information in this section is primarily a summary of Major Chapter Goals for FYE 2011-2012.

1. 
   Omega Week “Desert Storm”: March 26, 2012 - April 1, 2012. On Monday we will be having a percentage night in downtown Tempe at Hooters. Tuesday we will be hosting an Omega Forum which has one representative from each council on campus (PAN, IFC, MGC, NALFO) co-hosting with us. We will be talking about the mis-education of Greek life on campus. Wednesday we will have a “Play 60 Forum” hosted with Sigma Lambda Beta Fraternity Inc. We will be having a short information session on being healthy and staying active then we will have a flag football of capture the flag game on Student Recreation Center Field. On Thursday we will be hosting the Langston Hughes Poetry Night. We will have well known poet, Ise Lyfe, in attendance to talk and lecture. Friday we are teaming up with Memorial Union After Dark and we will be hosting a movie night on campus that is free for all students. Saturday we will be throwing our party “Desert Storm” in Scottsdale, AZ. Sunday we will have church service at Pilgrim Rest.
   

1. 
   Uplift: Members of Beta Mu Mu will be participating in a long-term tutoring relationship in math, science, and writing. Unfortunately, Las Vegas schools have replaced cities in Mississippi as being among the worse in the nation. The Brothers will offer their services to try to turn around this low ranking. The Chapter will explore grant opportunities to assist in this goal as well as their efforts around health-related matters.
   
2. 
   Volunteer Workers Program: Brothers of the Chapter will be continuing and strengthening a long-term relationship as volunteer workers in a local hospital and senior citizen home.
   
3. 
   Voter Registrars: One of the most significant goals of Beta Mu Mu Chapter this year is to get more community members registered as voters. Several members are voter registrars. However, the Chapter has a goal to get as many Brothers as voter registrars as possible as part of a larger social action initiative.
   
4. 
   Feed the Hungry: Beta Mu Mu Chapter has a partnership with Catholic Charities of Nevada whereby we man the serving of food line for two (2) hours each month.
   
5. 
   Clothing for African Refuges: We also partner with ECDC African Community Center to provide clothing for African and Arab countries refuges.
   

1. 
   Uplift: One of the most significant goals of Delta Alpha Alpha Chapter is to get its mentoring program (Boys 2 Men) going in full force. Delta Alpha Alpha and the Boys2Men program hosted a back to school hair cut day. The Chapter provided free haircuts for 75 young men.
   
2. 
   Housing: Delta Alpha Alpha is developing a “Housing Exploratory Committee” that will consider ways, through grants and the City of Tucson, to purchase a property to hold its mentoring program and Chapter’s social action activities.
   
3. 
   Fundraising Efforts: The Brothers of Delta Alpha Alpha will be developing more effective strategies for their NFL Season Ticket Fundraiser program. This fundraising event offers season tickets to the Phoenix Cardinals games. One goal is to engage Phi Iota Chapter in co-sponsoring this event.
   
4. 
   Scholarships: The Chapter will continue to develop and strengthen its Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship initiative. This is one of the main scholarship efforts of the Chapter and it is an open competition for all college-bound students.
   

1. 
   Right-sizing Chapter Efforts: Iota Iota Iota Chapter has held serious conversation about right-sizing its efforts giving the number of members versus men. As with many organizations, Iota Iota Iota Chapter struggles with getting participation to carryout its commitments. As a result, the Chapter will pull back on some of its previous commitments, become more concerted in a small number of activities, and co-partner with other organizations as much as possible.
   
2. 
   Uplift: One of the shining stars of the Chapter’s programs is its mentoring program (ISUTHU which is Swahili for “Coming into Manhood” or Boys to Men). The Chapter will increase its efforts here with the hopes of building this program into a graduation program that will be part of an Omega Youth Leadership Conference.
   
3. 
   Omega Weekend: The Chapter has put significant efforts into developing Omega Weekend held in August around Honorable Ernest E. Just’s birthday. The weekend includes a: a) Thursday golf tournament which is one of the Chapter’ main scholarship fundraising efforts; b) a Friday party that ties the events together and offers an additional opportunity to raise monies which supports the mentoring program; c) the Family Reunion & Back-to-School BBQue, where the Chapter provides free food, back-to-school supplies, clothes, and toys for k-12 students; and d) Omega Day at Church.
   
4. 
   Corporate Sponsorships: The Chapter has built a great relationship with corporate sponsors. These sponsors support the Omega Weekend events and the Founders Week & Achievement Awards festivities. The monies raised from supporting just several events allow the Chapter to operate in the Black each year.
   

1. 
   Scholarship Fundraiser: Kappa Xi offers a Golf Tournament each year. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, October 23rd. The proceeds for this event support the scholarship goals of the Chapter’s non-profit organization, “The Uplift Foundation of Nevada.”
   
2. 
   Scholarship Program Kappa Xi will recognize five African American male graduating seniors with scholarships at their annual scholarship awards programs. The Awards Program will be held Saturday, May 19, 2012.
   
3. 
   Economic & Student Leadership Summit: This program is now in its 14^th year of existence and services over 240 high school-aged youth. The summit offers information in the areas of banking, acquiring scholarships, establishing and maintaining good credit, and teen empowerment. Additionally, the summit provides over 60 adults/parents with workshops on how to better assist their students in acquiring college scholarships. This event will be held Saturday, December 8^, 2012.
   
4. 
   Uplift: Kappa Xi offers the community a Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner. This is a major program that the Chapter will continue to develop and expand its ability to provide to primarily working class and poor community members. The Chapter also supports community youth through its annual Shoe Drive. This program provides shoes to several hundred people in the Las Vegas community. Additionally, Kappa Xi sponsors a Toy Drive for low-income families in conjunction with the Las Vegas Fire Department. The Chapter additionally assists with logistic support for two major back school events where free schools supplies are given out to over 5000 returning students.
   
5. 
   Social Event: Kappa Xi has been offering a widely popular Wine Soirée. The Chapter plans on continuing this event as one of its major programs. This event will be held Saturday, July 21^st at Dragon Ridge Country Club.
   

1. 
   Social Event: Phi Iota is dedicated to increasing its presence in the community. This will be accomplished by the chapter seeking events that will allow for joint ventures between Phi Iota and other organizations and businesses.
   
2. 
   Scholarship Development: The Chapter’s non-profit organization, Lifting As We Climb, oversees and administers all scholarship monies raised by Phi Iota Chapter. Among the fundraisers targeted for the 2012 calendar year are the Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowling event and the annual Golf Tournament.
   
3. 
   Uplift: Phi Iota also continues to be actively involved with the American Diabetes Association here in Phoenix. In addition, the Chapter participates in the following: Voter Registration Drive, MLK Celebration, African American Legislative Days and Adopt-A-Family. The Adopt-A-Family program is modeled differently this year as the Chapter will now sponsor a single family (and potentially other families) for a full year. This is in contrast to past years when donations were only provided during Thanksgiving and Christmas.
   
4. 
   2016 District Meeting: The Chapter is preparing its bid package to host the 2016 12^th District Meeting in the Phoenix Metropolitan area. The Chapter will present its bid at the 2012 District Meeting in Indian Wells. This effort is being spearheaded by Brothers Charles Peevy, Charles Fisher and John Gresham.
   

Expected MSP (Undecided/No/Yes, if “Yes” potential number interested)

1. 
   Alpha Theta Yes, 1 in March
   
2. 
   Beta Mu Mu Undecided, 3 interested
   
3. 
   Delta Alpha Alpha Undecided, 1 interested
   
4. 
   Iota Iota Iota No, 4 interested
   
5. 
   Kappa Xi Yes, 4 interested
   
6. 
   Phi Iota Yes, 8 interested
   

As a collective, the Chapters in the Southwest Area have very similar short-term goals. These short-term goals are essentially in six areas that the Basilei believe are very significant. Future SW Area meetings and conference calls will be dedicated to developing strategies to help in these areas. The Chapter Basilei believe that their short-term goals are to:

1. 
   Get Brothers to pay their dues before December 31^st of the new fiscal year. Some members are waiting until March or April to pay dues.
   
2. 
   Reclamation continues to be a major area of concern.
   
3. 
   The Basileis want their respective Chapters “to get better at doing what they are currently doing.”
   
4. 
   Most Chapters have one primary fundraiser that produces the majority of its giving. These Chapters want to further strengthen and develop that effort. However, these SW Area Basileis would also like to develop a second major fundraiser that could take advantage of other sources of giving.
   
5. 
   All Chapters would like to develop a Strategic Marketing Plan for corporate sponsorships. The Basileis recognize that they need to better and more effectively target their primary donors, express appreciation and recognition of their primary donors without draining their generosity, and get a better market plan for new donors.
   
6. 
   Some Chapter leaders have discussed right-sizing their Chapter’s efforts. Most would like to scale back some of their efforts so that they can do a better job in key Chapter and Mandated Program areas.
   

Four of the six Chapters in the Southwest Area have mentoring programs. Between these four Chapters they provide critical mentoring services for approximately 60 young people. The two Chapters that do not have formal mentoring programs offer tutoring or leadership development events for youth.

1. 
   Delta Alpha Alpha (Boys2Men; # of mentees: 18)
   
   1. 
      College Tour
      
   2. 
      Partnership with the Tucson Urban League and the Tucson Unified School District in a collaborative effort to certify mentors in the state of Arizona.
      
2. 
   Iota Iota Iota (ISUTHU; # of mentees: 15)
   
   1. 
      Developing subject based mentoring.
      
   2. 
      Creating incentives for pro-social behavior and academic improvement.
      
   3. 
      Creation of the Omega Youth Leadership Conference.
      
   4. 
      Applying for grants to support mentoring program.
      
3. 
   Kappa Xi (Omega Gent; # of mentees: 7)
   
   1. 
      Regrowth of the mentoring program is a major goal. The success of the program has been exhibited by a 100% graduation rate, which also reduced the numbers from 25 mentees to seven. The overall graduation rate in Clarke County is 60% and even lower for African American males.
      
   2. 
      The Chapter will attend and be a sponsor for the 2^nd Annual HSBC Fair to be held in Las Vegas, NV.
      
4. 
   Phi Iota (Omega Youth Leadership Mentoring Academy; # of mentees: 23)
   
   1. 
      Continue to improve the all-academic year mentoring program.
      
   2. 
      Student and mentors toured USC and UCLA in January.
      
   3. 
      Sponsored a community screening of the movie Red Tails.
      
   4. 
      Conducted Black History month workshop and presentation at Sierra Linda High School.
      

1. 
   Alpha Theta - The Chapter will be on summer recess.
   
2. 
   Beta Mu Mu
   
   1. 
      Junior golf instruction
      
   2. 
      Nevada senior games participation
      
   3. 
      Mentoring/tutoring
      
   4. 
      voter registration,
      
   5. 
      Senior citizen bowling,
      
   6. 
      Hospital volunteering
      
   7. 
      Reclamation: “Smoker” for Brother recently relocated to Las Vegas
      
3. 
   Delta Alpha Alpha
   
   1. 
      Boys-Two-Men Certification
      
   2. 
      Cooking Fundraiser (Mentor)
      
   3. 
      Arizona Cardinal Raffle Tickets Sale Fundraiser
      
   4. 
      University of Arizona and Boys-Two-Men Mentor Partnership program
      
4. 
   Iota Iota Iota
   
   1. 
      Isuthu Mentoring Program activities
      
   2. 
      Omega Weekend in August
      
      1. 
         Thursday: Golf Tournament
         
      2. 
         Friday: White Party
         
      3. 
         Omega’s Family Reunion & Back-to-School BBQue
         
      4. 
         Omega Day at Church
         
   3. 
      Hosting the Fall District Council meeting: October 6, 2012
      
5. 
   Kappa Xi
   
   1. 
      Informational at the University of Nevada Las Vegas
      
   2. 
      Annual Scholarship Saturday, May 19, 2012
      
6. 
   Phi Iota
   
   1. 
      OYLA Healthy Living Workshop
      
   2. 
      Bowl-A-Thon with Big Brothers Big Sisters
      

1. 
   Alpha Theta
   
   1. 
      Valentine’s Day Spread the Love Soiree: February 4, 2012 in Memorial Union Ventana Room. Alpha Theta threw a soiree on campus for all student to come and fellowship. The soiree was free to attend. Alpha Theta just wanted to break barriers and stereotypes between Greeks and non-Greeks.
      
   2. 
      Uplift: Red, White, and Serve event hosted by Tau Psi Omega Fraternity Inc: This event took place on February 11, 2012. Went to Chandler to the “Feed my Starving Children” factory where we helped package food to be send to Africa. The amount of food that we packed will feed 44 children for 1 whole year.
      
   3. 
      Valentine’s Day Forum: February 13, 2012 in Memorial Union Alumni Room. Alpha Theta hosted this event with Kappa Delta Chi Sorority Inc. At this event we talked about the science of love and what it takes to have complete love for one another. At this event there was a lot of participation and interaction between the guest who attended.
      
   4. 
      AAMASU (African American Men of Arizona State University) – Carter G Woodson Workshop: February 28, 2012 at the Arizona State (Tempe Campus) Old Main, Carson Ballroom. Dr. Molefi Asante was the special guest speaker and host of this event. At this event Alpha Theta received a plaque for the hard work we have put in to uplift the community in the past year.
      
2. 
   Phi Iota
   
   1. 
      Conducted Annual Holiday Party. Hosted by Bro. Rodney Davis.
      
   2. 
      Participated in the College Fair and Divine Nine Weekend at First Institutional Baptist Church.
      
   3. 
      Presented a screening of Red Tails the movie. Members of the local chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen attended and spoke at the event which was screened to a capacity audience. The Chapter will look for future opportunities to conduct similar screenings for movies of significant importance.
      
   4. 
      Conducted Black History Month programs (included march performances) at Sierra Linda High School, Precision High School and at an event sponsored by Verizon.
      
   5. 
      Attended dedication of renaming of Eastlake Park gymnasium to the William C. McClellan Gymnasium. Bro. McClellan is a long-time Phoenix area resident who was instrumental in the growth and development of the Black community and the Chapter since the 1940s. Bro. McClellan was inducted into Phi Iota in the Spring of 1947.
      
   6. 
      Conducted Reclamation and OYLA “Percentage Night” fundraiser at Native New Yorker bar and grill. Native New Yorker is owned by Bro. Art Greathouse.
      
   7. 
      Support of other organizations’ activities – DST Bowl-A-Thon, upcoming AKA Regional conference, Links Cotillion, African American Legislative Days, American Diabetes Association (ADA) – Diabetes Day at the Capitol, ADA Appreciation Banquet and Zeta Phi Beta Skating Party.
      

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