# National APIDA Panhellenic Association

The National APIDA Panhellenic Association (NAPA) is an umbrella council for twenty Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American fraternities and sororities (Greek Letter organizations) in universities in the United States.

## History

In the summer of 2004, nine fraternal organizations that served Asian and Pacific Islander students at US schools came together to form what was then called the APIA Greek Alliance (AGA), a partnership with APIA Vote aimed at registering voters in advance of the 2004 United States elections. These nine organizations were alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Alpha Iota Omicron, Delta Phi Lambda, Lambda Phi Epsilon, Kappa Phi Lambda, Nu Alpha Phi, Pi Alpha Phi, Pi Delta Psi, and Sigma Psi Zeta.
The success of this partnership led to additional collaboration. The AGA hosted the first-ever leadership summit in the summer of 2005 with support from OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates. By the end of this summit, the fraternities and sororities present formed the North American Greek Council (NAGC) which comprised seven organizations: alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Alpha Phi Gamma, Delta Phi Lambda, Pi Alpha Phi, Pi Delta Psi, Sigma Beta Rho, and Sigma Psi Zeta.
In 2006, the NAGC formalized its constitution and renamed itself to the National APIA Panhellenic Association or the National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association (NAPA) and recognized the following nine organizations as charter members:
* alpha Kappa Delta Phi
* Alpha Phi Gamma
* Delta Phi Lambda
* Delta Kappa Delta
* Kappa Phi Lambda
* Pi Alpha Phi
* Pi Delta Psi
* Sigma Beta Rho
* Sigma Psi Zeta
In 2017, the member organizations unanimously voted to add Desi to its formal name, a word describing people from the Indian subcontinent or South Asia, and in doing so adopted the acronym APIDA, to explicitly reflect their service of groups with South Asian membership. NAPA remains the preferred abbreviation. The organizations at the time were:
* alpha Kappa Delta Phi
* Alpha Phi Gamma
* Beta Chi Theta
* Chi Sigma Tau
* Delta Epsilon Psi
* Delta Phi Lambda
* Delta Kappa Delta
* Delta Phi Omega
* Delta Sigma Iota
* Iota Nu Delta
* Kappa Phi Gamma
* Kappa Phi Lambda
* Lambda Phi Epsilon
* Pi Alpha Phi
* Pi Delta Psi
* Sigma Beta Rho
* Sigma Psi Zeta
* Sigma Sigma Rho.
Pi Alpha Phi's membership was withdrawn in October 2023 when the fraternity closed its collegiate chapters.
NAPA has worked with peer organizations like NALFO, NMGC, NIC, NPC and NPHC on legislative issues. For example, in 2018 they successfully opposed legislation that would ban Greek life across all colleges and universities in Tennessee.

## Membership Requirements

APIDA requires that its members (organizations) meet Fraternal Information and Programming Group (FIPG) guidelines in Risk management, hazing, and liability insurance. The decision to do so was made in 2006 with then-current groups allowed two years to meet these requirements.

## Member organizations

The alphabetical list of NAPA member fraternities and sororities.
| Organization | Symbols | Type | Date founded | Founding location | Chapters |
| alpha Kappa Delta Phi | αΚΔΦ | Sorority | February 7, 1990 | University of California, Berkeley | 63 |
| Alpha Phi Gamma | ΑΦΓ | Sorority | February 1, 1994 | California State Polytechnic University, Pomona | 16 |
| Alpha Sigma Rho | ΑΣΡ | Sorority | April 2, 1998 | University of Georgia | 10 |
| Chi Sigma Tau | ΧΣΤ | Fraternity | September 9, 1999 | University of Illinois at Chicago | 9 |
| Delta Epsilon Psi | ΔΕΨ | Fraternity | October 1, 1998 | University of Texas at Austin | 35 |
| Delta Kappa Delta | ΔΚΔ | Sorority | October 1, 1999 | Texas A&M University | 15 |
| Delta Phi Lambda | ΔΦΛ | Sorority | December 5, 1998 | University of Georgia | 24 |
| Delta Phi Omega | ΔΦΩ | Sorority | December 6, 1998 | University of Houston | 49 |
| Delta Sigma Iota | ΔΣΙ | Fraternity | August 15, 2000 | Pennsylvania State University | 8 |
| Iota Nu Delta | ΙΝΔ | Fraternity | February 7, 1994 | Binghamton University | 30 |
| Kappa Phi Gamma | ΚΦΓ | Sorority | November 8, 1998 | University of Texas at Austin | 19 |
| Kappa Phi Lambda | ΚΦΛ | Sorority | March 9, 1995 | Binghamton University | 37 |
| Kappa Pi Beta | ΚΠΒ | Fraternity | March 16, 2000 | Northern Illinois University | 5 |
| Lambda Phi Epsilon | ΛΦΕ | Fraternity | February 25, 1981 | University of California, Los Angeles | 70 |
| Pi Delta Psi | ΠΔΨ | Fraternity | February 20, 1994 | Binghamton University | 31 |
| Sigma Beta Rho | ΣΒΡ | Fraternity | August 16, 1996 | University of Pennsylvania | 57 |
| Sigma Psi Zeta | ΣΨΖ | Sorority | March 23, 1994 | University at Albany | 39 |
| Sigma Sigma Rho | ΣΣΡ | Sorority | December 10, 1998 | St. John's University | 26 |

## Former members of National APIDA or its Predecessors

| Organization | Symbols | Type | Date founded | Founding location | Chapters |
| Alpha Iota Omicron | ΑΙΩ | Fraternity | October 16, 1998 | University of Michigan | 6 |
| Beta Chi Theta | ΒΧΘ | Fraternity | June 2, 1999 | University of California, Los Angeles | 29 |
| Nu Alpha Phi | ΝΑΦ | Fraternity | March 18, 1994 | State University of New York at Albany | 9 |
| Pi Alpha Phi | ΠΑΦ | Fraternity | February 1, 1929 | University of California, Berkeley | 28 |