Northern Illinois University
Fraternity and Sorority Life

When you can't meet in person, chapter leaders can use virtual resources to stay connected with their organizations and involved with their communities.

Watch a video on mental health during the coronavirus pandemic.

Recruitment and Intake

• Read about a new approach to recruitment.
• Learn about digital recruitment.
• Read about virtual recruitment.
• Informal Recruitment is Non-Toxic
• Informal Recruitment Event Best Practices
• Relationships Matter in CBFOs
• The Walls We Create to Joining Our Organizations
• Principles of Inclusivity & Equity in Recruitment and Intake
• Researching CBFOs: Sure, Just Visit the Website
• Hosting Better Informationals
• How to Recruit Gen Z
• 10 Virtual Recruitment Events
• 97 Ways to Make Panhellenic Recruitment More Authentic
• Better Questions, for Better Conversations
• Top 5 Tips for Panhellenic Informal Recruitment
• Are you recruiting Buddies or Brothers?
• What PNM excuses really mean

New Member Education and Presentations

• How to Keep the Members You Recruit
• Tips for Fraternity New Member Education
• What do the Beatles Know About Member Retention?
• How a Championship Team Onboards New Teammates
• 10 Be’s of Virtual Relationship Building
• Onboarding New Members
• Use Tik Tok challenges to reveal new members
• Give each New Member their own post on your chapter’s Instagram to introduce them

Service

• Volunteer based on your schedule with Catchafire.
• Translate for international organizations that focus on crisis relief, health and education.
• Play trivia with Free Rice Fundraiser, and for every question answered, 10 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food Program
• Read children's books on social media for parents to share with their kids.
• Make animal toys out of old T-shirts.
• Transcribe historical documents for the Smithsonian.
• Check out online volunteering with the UN.
• Subtitle and translate TED Talks
• Your chapter can Adopt a Nursing Home!
• Test, evaluate or develop things for the National Park Service

Brotherhood and Sisterhood

• Senior shoutouts to honor graduating members or throw a "senior send-off party". Have members prepare speeches about individual seniors' impacts and send them a gift in the mail.
• Complete a RecWell virtual movement or workout class.
• Take a virtual tour of a national park together.
• Check out the book 44 Ways to Foster Brotherhood and Sisterhood Virtually.
• Play board games online.
• Host an MTV Cribs episode: Have members show their houses and rooms on a video call
• Play eye spy or just watch with a live animal cam.
  • Check out this one is from Big Cat Rescue. Maybe you’ll get a glimpse of Carol Baskin?
• Try a virtual candle pass.
• Use a free virtual museum tour for a brotherhood or sisterhood event.
• Hold a virtual trivia event.
• Have virtual brotherhood or sisterhood dates. Put members in pairs or small groups to Facetime and stay connected.

Ritual

• Facetime or video conference with a brother or sister and discuss your favorite line, value or part of your ritual ceremony.
• Share how you've realized the importance of your organization's values, motto or creed.
• Share a story of how you're living your ritual. Describe how your promises helped you realize the gift you've been given as a member of your organization.

Marketing and PR

• Gaining Visibility on Campus
• Marketing Like a 4^th Grade Bake Sale
• Bringing People to YOU with marketing
• The 4 S’s of Fraternity & Sorority Life Marketing
• What is PR Chair supposed to do?
• Marketing Manifesto
• Marketing to Gen Z

Chapter Operations

• Have chapter meetings virtually using Zoom, Google Hangouts or Microsoft Teams.
• Post or email chapter meeting minutes.
• Virtual Meeting Tips
• Top 10 Things Your Chapters Should Do Right Now to Respond to COVID-19
• 5 Heartfelt Requests for Sororities