About the Leadership Resources Clearinghouse

The Leadership Resources Clearinghouse is a program sponsored by the National Leadership Development Committee of Alpha Phi Omega and is intended to provide an archive for workshop materials, specifically lecture notes, slides, handouts, and other documents that can be used by the Brothers of Alpha Phi Omega. Originally it was intended for future workshop presenters to use this material to write even better workshops for the next conference. It is certainly still used for that. However, over the few years the Clearinghouse has existed, Brothers who were not able to attend a conference came here to gain the knowledge that they missed. Also, Brothers who were at the conference but didn't get a copy of the handouts can find them here. In many ways the Clearinghouse has become a reference library for any and all topics regarding the interests of the Fraternity's members.

The condition of the workshop material varies. Since the Clearinghouse began from primarily hard copies, many of the early submissions are scans of handwritten notes. Not the easiest things to read, but at least the concepts are there. As time progressed and more electronic submissions were made, the quality of the PDF files improved (for more information about the history of the Clearinghouse, click here. However, it is important to remember that the intent of the Clearinghouse is to capture what the original author presented. That means, if the notes were submitted with a certain background for the slides for example or the outline was done in a certain way, it is still there. Everything on the Clearinghouse is "as is", just like it was when the presenter gave it to the webmaster. This preservation is the reason the PDF format was selected for the files. It is the best way to preserve each author's original work. All new material submitted to the Clearinghouse must be submitted as the original WORD/POWERPOINT/etc file from the author, which will be converted to PDF format for archival.

Documents and workshop materials in the Clearinghouse are provided as a courtesy and a service by unpaid, volunteer staff members of our Fraternity. You are free to incorporate information from these previous workshops into your own work, but please be respectful of the hard work that our volunteers have put into this and make sure that you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) of the information that you use.

If you have any ideas or suggestions regarding the Leadership Resources Clearinghouse, please contact the Clearinghouse Coordinator.