XI Alpha Lambda vs MyChapter

This official Xi Alpha Lambda Chapter App is for members of the chapter to find out about our events, chat with Chapter members, View Chapter Documents, View Chapter Directory, and much more. The ability to effectively communicate with Chapter members will help us continue to develop leaders, promote brotherhood and academic excellence, while providing service and advocacy for our community. The App also allows guest to view many features of the app in the GuestView. Guest can also receive push notifications of Chapter and Community events. As a Guest you can also contact the Brothers, with any questions, or comments. Xi Alpha Lambda (XAL) Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. is located in the Prince William County area of Virginia. For more than 40 years, XAL has grown to be the largest chapter in the state, the largest chapter in the Eastern Region and one of the largest chapters in all of Alpha. The impetus for chartering XAL began in the late summer of 1980 when Brother Needham Kelly, Jr. and Brother Randall Palmer, III met to discuss the ideas of a new Alpha Phi Alpha chapter to serve Brothers in the Prince William and Southern Fairfax Counties. After a formidable amount of research and discussion, a consensus began to arise and later that year, Brothers Kelly and Palmer met with Brother Ulysses X. White to discuss an active group that was focused on doing work in the community. Brothers Otto Williams and Otis Cox expressed the same interest and quickly expanded the search for new brothers in the Northern Virginia area. Several months later following an interest group meeting which was held at Blue Bird Supper Club in Triangle, Va., 15 Brothers voiced their support for the idea of forming a new alumni chapter. The idea became a reality and on May 31, 1981, Xi Alpha Lambda was chartered by 34 Brothers. The first chapter banquet was held at the Fort Belvoir Officers' Club, which was also the location for the chapter's monthly meetings. The meeting location has since been moved, and XAL currently meets at South County Middle School in Lorton, Va.

Introducing MyChapter, the personal app for your college fraternity or sorority chapter! Use MyChapter to connect, organize and engage with fellow undergraduate members, alumni members and prospective new members (PNMs). It's the new platform for all fraternity and sorority services designed to drive up engagement and affinity for your organization... and it's developed by fellow Greeks like you. It's like your chapter's private social media. Current Features: o Managing Chapter Membership - Chapter admins login and create their university, national and local chapter - Chapter admins add undergrad and alumni members via spreadsheet or 1x1 - Members login and connect to their pre-registered chapter account - Members setup their profile, class year, contact info, major/profession... - Members add their clubs & interests and easily make connections with fellow members & PNMs (Potential New Members) - Members add links to their SocialMedia sites for easy navigation - Members can add their educational pursuits and connect with alumni/members o Messaging Feeds - Chapter Admins can post interesting Feeds, e.g. Chapter News, Careers for comment. - Members can reply to feeds or create their own feed of interest, e.g. Leadership o Engaging with fellow Members - Members can easily connect with fellow members using MyChapter's contact info - Email, phone, text for all participating members at your fingertips - ListView displays member contact info, majors/professions, clubs/interests... - IconView displays all member profile pictures to easily find a familiar face - Members can be filtered on class year, home state, alumni/undergrad... o Map View - Members can view a map of fellow Members who provide their home addresses - Area events, e.g. dinners, golf, drinks..., can be setup near most Members - Filtering on class year allows Members to see just classmates in their era o Voting - Digital voting for chapter elections, recruiting and internal opinion polls - Conduct elections at light speed with great post election analytics - Members can create private polls among friends or the whole chapter - Opinion Polls can be used for merit programs, e.g. Kindest Act (of the week) o Recruitment - MyChapter is also available for Potential New Members (PNMs) for browsing - PNMs can view select information about campus chapters of interest - PNMs can see which chapters align best with their clubs, interests or majors - MyChapter provides great information about PNMs and possible matches - Member/PNM interactions are easily tracked for great analytics - Recruitment efforts are more fruitful and more effective - Fraternity/sorority chapters can find and connect with the best PNMs o ScoreBoards - ScoreBoards are point systems or leaderboards for a variety of activities - MyChapter supports individual member and chapter-wide ScoreBoards - Individual ScoreBoards among peers can be golf birdies, weight loss, grades... - Chapter ScoreBoards include meeting attendance, service hours, house jobs... - ScoreBoards easily setup by defining actions and associated points earned - ScoreBoard admins record actions to populate leaderboards of points earned - Any member can create a private ScoreBoard among fellow Members or PNMs - ScoreBoards can be member private, organization private or public MyChapter Futures! Several additional features are under active development. If you have a great idea for a new feature, we'd love to hear it.