The Northeast Greek Leadership Association (NGLA) held their 10th Annual Conference in Hartford, Connecticut on February 18-21, 2010 at the Marriott Hotel Downtown.  Over 700 student leaders from across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region attended to promote positive interfraternal relations, exchange ideas, network with other student leaders from other campuses, and attend programming sessions that encourages student leaders to learn and develop their leadership skills. 

 

The Northeast Regional Vice Chair for the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations (NALFO), Jarrod Cruz, attended and presented a roundtable discussion for about 20 interested students, professionals and volunteers. The purpose of the roundtable discussion was to introduce a brief history of NALFO, discuss where NALFO is today and where the organization is moving in the future. The Regional Vice Chair also fielded questions about the newly adopted Open Expansion requirement for member organizations. The session was attended by students from the following 13 NALFO member organizations: Lambda Alpha Upsilon, Sigma Lambda Beta, Lambda Theta Alpha, Lambda Upsilon Lambda, Sigma Lambda Upsilon, Phi Iota Alpha, Lambda Sigma Upsilon, Omega Phi Beta, Chi Upsilon Sigma.

 

NGLA also hosts an awards banquet to close the conference that recognizes the achievements and accomplishments of individuals, councils and communities. The awards distributed this past weekend were the Amy Vojta Impact Awards. The awards are named in honor of Amy Vojta, a founding member of the Northeast Greek Leadership Association since 2000 for her 10 years of service, vision and leadership she dedicated to the association.  Congratulations go out to all the award recipients, including:

·         Cornell University – Sigma Lambda Upsilon Sorority, Inc. for Multicultural Initiatives Award

·         University of Delaware – Fraternity & Sorority Community for Philanthropy Award

·         Drexel University – Multicultural Greek Council for Membership Recruitment Award

All award recipients may be found online at http://ngla.org/community-awards. 

 

NALFO and the Northeast Regional Vice Chair will continue to look at ways to partner with the NGLA Board of Directors in the future. Our partnership will continue to be strong as we work together to provide high quality and purposeful programmatic  leadership opportunities that advance the mission, vision and values of NALFO and all of our member organizations. Congratulations to the Northeast Greek Leadership Association (NGLA) on their ten year anniversary and thanks to those students and member organizations who made this year’s annual conference a success. We look forward to seeing many more student leaders from NALFO organizations at the NGLA Conference in the coming years.

 

A picture of the students who attended the NALFO Roundtable session at NGLA is provided in this release. To see more pictures, please join the Facebook.com group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17748810459. 

For more information about the Northeast Greek Leadership Association (NGLA), please go to http://www.ngla.org. The Northeast Regional Vice Chair Jarrod Cruz may be reached via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or online at http://www.nalfonortheast.com. To stay updated about the events, activities and progress in the northeast region, please sign-up for the listserv at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nalfo_northeast/. 

 

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Established in 1998, NALFO serves as the umbrella council for 21 Latino/a fraternities and sororities from across the United States. The purpose of NALFO is to promote and foster positive inter-fraternal relations, communication and development of all Latino fraternal organizations through mutual respect, leadership, honesty, professionalism and education.

 

The Northeast Region serves the following states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.