AVC Effectiveness

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AVC Effectiveness Efficiency

• Making the most of your limited time.

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Insurmountable Opportunity
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Whats in it for you?

• Topics
• 5 Success Factors
• The Curse of Pricing
• Best Practices
• Budgeting
• Broken Window Theory

• Take Aways
• SpreadsheetsBudgets
• ContractsMembers, Chapter
• Collection Letters
• Best Practices
• Meeting Agenda
• Budget Graphs
• Effectiveness Efficiency

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5 Factors

• Academics
• BMS (Manpower)
• Pricing
• Goals Feedback
• Membership ExperienceBalanced Man

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Dr. Dubach was right
Character Brains

• The Payoff in Academics
• Less Alcohol Use
• Leadership Capacity
• Communication Skills
• Time for Fraternity
• Retention
• Graduation
• Chapter Environment
• Stupidity is not an excuse

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Thank you Don Kindle

• The Balanced Man Scholarship WorksDo it right,
  do it now.
• Right Parental Contact
• A process not an outcomeit is about changing
  your fishing hole.
• Manage it, fund it, incent what you want.
• Just follow the plan..it is all about
  implementation.
• ask the Delts

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The Market Place

• Residence Halls
• State Financing
• No Property Tax
• Little Insurance Cost
• No Liability Insurance
• Limited Social Use
• Modest Public Space
• Professional Management
• Female Male

• Chapter
• Market Financing or Worse
• Property Taxes
• Insurance Costs
• Liability Insurance
• Heavy Social Use
• Extensive Public Space
• Volunteer Management
• Male

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From our Research
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More Research
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The Pricing Curse

• Take away the 2 that are within 5 of campus
  rates and the average becomes 19 less than
  campus
• So our operating costs are higher and we
  collect 20 less revenueWOW.
• Want to speculate about our future?

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Whats missing in many volunteer organizations?

• Goals
• Does the AVC have any written, measurable
  goalsdo the undergrads know them?
• Does your chapter? Measurable? Posted?
  Incentives/Rewards?
• Change your experience, invest your time in
  establishing goals and ensuring feedback.

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The Membership Experience

• Balanced Man
• Resident Scholar, Housemother, Fairy Godmother
  Someone please.
• Campus, Community Guests
• Hazing, open parties---if you have such do us all
  a favor and leave.

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Focus

• The tendency is to overcomplicate.
• Make your experience more fun, rewarding,
  successful
• Focus..on the 5

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Best Practices. Basic Financial
Strategies
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More Best PracticesThe Monthly Meeting Agenda
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And yes there are more..
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Best Practices, Alumni
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Mayor Giuliani NYC confirmed it!

• In 1982 political scientist Jim Wilson,
  suggested that the key to social decay is a
  rising level of disorder that residents fail to
  change in time, in his Broken Window Theory.
• Try it at your facility. Fix your broken
  windows, right fast. It pays off.

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AVC Chapter Budget Graphs
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AVC Budget

• Meet or exceed the residence hall
• Include 5 uncollectible
• Include X soft goods maintenance
• Include 3 of property value savings annually
• Support the chapters educational, leadership
  programming
• Invest in Pizzazz

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More AVC Budgeting

• Plan for incentives.Recruitment, BMS, Athletics
• Collect Room, Board once a term---
  Stop the monthly madness
• Use a 3rd party for collectionsask what works on
  your campus.
• and.

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Chapter BudgetingFraternity requires resources

• Increase annually
• Include the cost of scholarships
• Remember chapter pays no one except Cook,
  Resident Advisor
• Think thru annual dues insuranceshould these
  be billed when received?
• Address late payments, damages
• Post A/Rpeer pressure power

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Have a lease with the Chapter 1st

• Chapters pays AVC once each term
• Chapter, members have responsibility to fill
  house consistent with chapter by laws
• Insure chapter has minimum number of terms in
  house standard or something similar uses it

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Lease with each live in, 2nd

• Establish payments due each term
• Establish behavioral restrictionsno weapons, no
  alcohol?
• Address maintenanceability to collect from
  members for damages

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Fraternitys Membership Agreement

• Know what it is, use and get it signed
• Violations addressedcensure, fine, termination
• Protect the chapter from stupid behavior

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On the AVC disk you will find

• Excel Budgets Chapter and AVCformulas comments
• Graphic Presentations for Budgets
• LeasesChapter Member
• Collection Letters
• Sample incentive plan for Recruitment /or
  BMSmaybe too much
• This presentation

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Hooray for you. Hooray for us!

• Have goals.
• Sell on value not price.
• Insist on academic success.
• Make it their problemjust dont abdicate.
• Communicate.
• Celebrate.

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AVC Effectiveness Efficiency

• Making the most of your limited time.
• Did I?

Ken Maddox email kmaddox_at_hamil.com