Do many people join Greek organizations that aren't Nationals?

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by adpiucf

I think it is a lot easier to say one's organization does things better than another, whether you are local or national. We're a self-selecting group on this board who are very proud of the organizations we have joined and which we contribute our time and efforts to.

I disagree. If you're saying that your [and I mean your in the general sense, not as in adpiucf] organization does things better, it's probably a sign of hubris unless you have real insight into how other groups operate.

Now, I know for a fact that on a national organizational level and in terms of property management expertise, ADPi runs circles around my own organization. The amount of guidance we get on our house corporation is that we should probably start one, but no one at HQ really can be of much help because corporate and not-for-profit laws vary from place to place.

A couple of times here recently, I was ramping up my own chapter's House Corporation, leases, subleases and whatnot because it looked like we might acquire some property. Most of my information came from a couple of very helpful sorority members from GC and from my undergrad days who now sit on their House Corp boards and it was far better than anything I could have come up with on my own.

It seems like I've digressed, but I haven't.

With respect to property management, I pretty much understand what it's like to be a local. You have to reinvent the wheel. From my direct experience with a couple of major NPC groups, NPC groups do not have that. They have tried and true organizational approaches to similar problems, they have a deep bench of alumnae volunteers networked across the nation.

My first rule these days in approaching any property related issue is to find out how an NPC group would handle that and then emulate that as best I can.