Chapter Highlights

摘要

This past year, COVID has taken a toll on our daily lives. It is good to see our situation improving. We did plan to have our chapter recognitions and chapter workshops at the 2021 annual summit, but we all know how that plan worked out this year.Our chapters have stayed steady with membership declining slightly. Presently we have 78 active worldwide AAAA Chapters. Our chapter activities, even with COVID, have continued with 282 chapter events submitted to AAAA National in 2020. Events have been grouped into six categories: Quarterly, Sporting, Social, Fundraising, Organization Days and Community Action. To help our chapters through this COVID pause, AAAA continued support by funding them with $45,312 through our quarterly chapter refunds. Additionally, through our out-of-cycle funding request program, the National Executive Group directly funded an additional $107,475 to support 41 events for 29 chapters. We continue to recognize our members; last year 50 chapters submitted 684 OSM/Knight/OLL for induction. Scholarships were still a big push at the chapter level, 41 chapters helped keep our scholarship program remain alive and well. At the chapter level, 242 scholarships were sponsored at a total value of $385,000. Chapters were a big part of AAAA providing our membership $537,000 in scholarships to 313 scholarship participants. What a great year!