Educational Partners

AFA ‘Educational Partners’ are our most committed vendors, non-profits, and consulting agencies who share an interest in elevating the standard of the sorority and fraternity profession. As AFA’s most engaged collaborators, Educational Partners gain direct access to a powerful network of decision makers, campus influencers, and thought leaders shaping the future of fraternity/sorority life. Becoming an AFA Educational Partner is a strategic investment in visibility, credibility, and connection. Whether your goal is to engage with individual professionals, reach specific campus communities, or align with other leading organizations in the field, being an AFA Educational Partner positions your business to make a meaningful impact.

 

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2026-27 Educational Partners

Champions

The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation

The Andrew McDonough B+ (Be Positive) Foundation honors the life of Andrew McDonough. Andrew battled leukemia, septic shock and complications of childhood cancer for 167 days before passing away on July 14, 2007, at the age of 14. The B+ Foundation is about Kids Helping Kids Fight Cancer – raising money through events on college campuses, local events like 5Ks and Golf Outings, corporate partnerships, merchandise sales, and more – to provide financial and emotional support to families of children with cancer nationwide and fund critical, cutting-edge childhood cancer research.

Plaid

Plaid is an organizational training and development firm with the vision of helping people and teams be better, by designing thought-provoking and stimulating learning experiences for both students and professionals. Plaid supports its partners by creating educational programs, conducting research and data strategies, and serving as a trusted consultant for strategic planning and human capital development initiatives.

Leaders

GreekYearbook

GreekYearbook is the leading photography company serving fraternities and sororities across North America. For more than 25 years, we have helped Greek organizations preserve their most meaningful moments through professional portraits, composites, convention photography, bid day coverage, and chapter events. Built by Greeks, for Greeks, our mission is simple: create exceptional images and experiences that celebrate brotherhood, sisterhood, leadership, and lifelong memories.

Lumen Leadership Strategies

Lumen Leadership Strategies serves as a trusted partner to leaders in higher education, the association industry, philanthropic organizations, as well as for select for-profit entities. Everyone can recall a point in time where a person, collection of people or organization provided some light to help them find a better way. At Lumen, we help illuminate the path to success for those leaders who are looking for a fresh perspective and a steady partner on their leadership journey.

Advocates

Order of Omega

Order of Omega is the premier honor organization for Fraternity/Sorority leaders. Founded in 1959 at the University of Miami (FL), Order of Omega has expanded internationally and now boasts over 585 chapters at campuses in the United States, Canada, and The Bahamas. Since 1959, Order of Omega has initiated over 300,000 exemplary Fraternity/Sorority leaders. Our undergraduate scholarship program, started in 1985, has eclipsed the $1.5 million mark.

Order of Omega

Release U

Release U's mission is to inspire young men to become the best version of themselves, and we are aspiring to build the largest personal development and mental wellbeing platform for young men in the world. Release U partners with high schools, universities, and fraternities on their most pressing male engagement challenges. Release U offers a comprehensive digital engagement suite featuring high-quality, evidence-based content, live chat support with trained, vetted male coaches, and a targeted behavior change effort that meets men where they are via email newsletters, and social media. Research conducted by Indiana University’s Irsay Institute shows that Release U works to reduce anxiety symptoms, improve trust and help-seeking behavior, and, critically, increase young men’s expectations they would complete their college degree due to participation in Release U. There are now over 100,000 Release U members across the country.

Collaborators

AFLV

The Association of Fraternal Leadership & Values exists to accelerate progress in fraternity/sorority communities through change-enabling experiences. AFLV regularly engages nearly 300 campuses over 4,000 fraternity and sorority members in attendance at our experiences each year, in part through their signature AFLV Central and AFLV West conferences.

Alpha Epsilon Pi

Alpha Epsilon Pi is the world’s Jewish college fraternity, operating chapters on more than 150 college campuses in four countries. Founded in 1913, AEPi has more than 100,000 living alumni. The fraternity’s mission – developing the future leaders of the Jewish communities – is demonstrated every day through acts of brotherhood, Tzedakah, social awareness and support for Jewish communities and Israel.

Alpha Epsilon Pi

Chptr

Chptr is a service-oriented operations management company built by SEC Greeks. We add value to Greek Life organizations and our vendor partners by creating a management system for streamlining student group operations. We are one central hub for everything a Greek organization needs, from internal communication, daily operations, mitigating risks, and vendor management and procurement.

Flare

Flare is a free all-in-one app used by chapters for daily communication. It organizes features like attendance, event calendars, ticketing, announcements, chats, photo sharing, and more into one centralized app.

Greek University

At Greek University, we believe in the leadership of fraternities and sororities. We care about your community. Since 2015, we have changed behavior in the long term and created safer campuses by leveraging the leadership embedded in fraternities and sororities. Our favorite moment? Watching all the 'ahas' go off in student's minds as we help them solve campus, council, and chapter problems with our keynote presentations, leadership conferences, workshops, and retreats.

Hazing Prevention Network

Hazing Prevention Network is a nonprofit dedicated to empowering people to prevent hazing. We educate people about the dangers of hazing, advocate for change, and engage the community in strategies to prevent hazing.

Interfaith America

Interfaith America (IA) was founded as Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) in 2002 based on the idea that religious difference should serve as a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division. Since that time, Interfaith America has evolved from a small Chicago-based nonprofit to one of the nation’s premier pluralism organizations. Utilizing a research-backed approach, we work on college campuses, in the corporate field, and across diverse civic spaces.

Lounge Technologies, Inc.

Lounge is a platform for FSL risk management. Register events, reduce liability, implement risk management processes, improve safety and reconcile local and national rosters. Lounge combines a 5 star mobile app for students with an admin dashboard for national organizations, giving you and your chapters the tools you need to create the best and safest college experience for modern times.

OmegaFi / Pennington &. Co

OmegaFi and Pennington & Company provide financial, fundraising, recruitment and membership engagement software and services and software for fraternities and sororities. Our innovative tools and customer-centered approach help fraternal chapters, house corporations, headquarters, foundations and campus councils save time and money. Together, we manage nearly 10-million-member records, collect $500 million in dues, rent, fees and contributions every year; and have raised more than $1 billion in donations.

OmegaFi/Pennington & Co.

OurHouse

OurHouse is the most complete mobile app and web platform ever created for fraternities, sororities, and other non-profit organizations. OurHouse is centered around a robust, native mobile app that will replace Facebook groups, GroupMe, manual event attendance, emails, mass texting, and other fragmented software. Our frequently updated technology allows chapters and members to operate and communicate more efficiently on a daily basis, and is the only one available in the Greek industry that provides a modern and intuitive experience comparable to the apps that students are accustomed to.

Phired Up

Phired Up powers fraternity and sorority growth with complete, connected systems—built on smart education and proven technology. We don’t just deliver tools. We build partnerships. That means growing with you, not just talking at you. From high-impact workshops and digital classrooms to ongoing strategic coaching, our support is custom-built for your councils, your chapters, and your most pressing challenges. We create behavior-shifting education for PNMs, leaders, and advisors—tailored to fit your culture and your goals.

Piazza Center for Fraternity and Sorority Research

The Timothy J. Piazza Center for Fraternity and Sorority Research is dedicated to transformative change and saving lives! Our research-driven approach targets the underlying factors of hazing while promoting healthier fraternities, sororities, student organizations, and athletic programs to build safer and stronger communities. We emphasize campus-based preventive strategies to combat hazing, risky drinking, and violence; empower students to enhance their learning, leadership, and take action; and strengthen accountability that prioritizes prevention and student’s doing the right thing.

RealResponse

Alcohol101+ is a cost-free, digital alcohol education program developed by Responsibility.org. Designed to be used with college students, the course includes interactive and quick-paced programming covering core alcohol education topics. Alcohol101+ also contains tools for institutions to easily roster students, track progress, and analyze assessment data.

Responsibility.org

Alcohol101+ is a cost-free, digital alcohol education program developed by Responsibility.org. Designed to be used with college students, the course includes interactive and quick-paced programming covering core alcohol education topics. Alcohol101+ also contains tools for institutions to easily roster students, track progress, and analyze assessment data.

Responsibility.org

She's Birdie

At She’s Birdie, we understand that feeling safe is fundamental to living a healthy life, so we create easy-to-use mobile personal safety alarms to help women navigate the world with confidence and choose the type of support they want depending on the situation they’re in. As a company, we’re focused on building connections so women can feel secure, pursue what matters to them, and live free.

StopHazing

StopHazing’s mission is to promote safe and inclusive school, campus, and organizational environments through research, resource sharing, and the development of data-driven strategies for hazing prevention and the promotion of positive and inclusive group climates.

Stophazing

Upper Crust Food Service

Proudly serving Fraternities, Upper Crust Food Service is known for freshness, quality, variety, and excellent customer service. Upper Crust Food Service began with a vision to solve a problem that many Fraternity houses face. That problem is a lack of consistency and professionalism in the kitchen. With a focus on great food and personal service, we’ve remained true to our roots. Today, the chefs of Upper Crust Food Service prepare tens of thousands of meals weekly for students across the country.

Supporters

Holmes Murphy

Each element can be added and moved around within any page effortlessly. All the features you need are just one click away. At Holmes Murphy, we speak your language and also offer the essential insurance products to fit the unique needs of each client and respective organization.

Holmes Murphy understands while our clients may be members of the same fraternal marketplace, each individual organization has unique insurance and risk management needs that require customized solutions - rather than a one size fits all approach. Holmes Murphy Fraternal Practice prides itself on providing creative and proactive client-oriented strategies and being your long-time advocate and partner.