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INSIDE
CONNECTION
Laura O’Connor
| DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP & MARKETING
“As you can see CAI-NJ
provides our members with
many amenities and we
are always working hard
to offer new and improved
member services.”
M
any of your communities have wonderful ame-
nities such as swimming pools, parks or tennis
courts that offer benefits to your residents. You
may not realize that CAI-NJ membership also has many
amenities and so in keeping with this month’s
Community
Trends
®
theme I am going to elaborate on the “Amenities”
of your CAI-NJ membership.
Did you know that all CAI-NJ members are encouraged
to submit content for
Community Trends
®
,
CAI-NJ’s award
winning magazine? This is particularly beneficial to our
Business Partner and Manager/Management Company
members who can use this opportunity to reach our mem-
bers and demonstrate their expertise in their fields. This is
an invaluable way to get the word out about your company
that is underutilized by our membership.
CAI-NJ is proud to offer our homeowner members
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Mediation Services, a
program mandated by state law, at a substantially discount-
ed rate of $375, a $125 savings for each mediation.
Many communities require several mediations each year
resulting in significant savings for our member communities.
Education is always a primary goal of our chapter and
CAI-NJ strives to make it as easy as possible for our volun-
teer homeowner members by offering our Board Leadership
Development Workshop at no additional cost for all CAVL
members in good standing. CAI-NJ members can even
request to host the training if they can guarantee a group
of twenty participants.
This year CAI-NJ has launched the new Community
Academic Institute Lecture Series. Five interesting sessions will
be held at the CAI-NJ Headquarters office conveniently locat-
ed in Freehold, NJ throughout the year. Each session will be
free for CAI-NJ members to attend.
CAI-NJ knows that our managers need continuing edu-
cation credits to keep up with their industry certifications.
We want to make this as easy and convenient as possible
for our members. Many free educational programs are
offered throughout the year at different locations regionally
to provide our manager and management company mem-
bers with opportunities to obtain these credits.
The most exciting effort demonstrating CAI-NJ’s commit-
ment to supporting education this year was the launch
of the Jules C. Frankel Manager Education Assistance
Program (MAP). The MAP was developed to assist our
Manager members in furthering their educational and
professional development goals by providing the opportu-
nity to any CAI-NJ Manager member in good standing to
apply for a scholarship. CAI-NJ will provide a fifty (50%)
reimbursement per course to select managers for any of the
200 or 300 courses offered by CAI.
As you can see CAI-NJ provides our members with many
amenities and we are always working hard to offer new and
improved member services. Please remember to take advan-
tage of your membership throughout the year. Be sure to “Like”
us on Facebook at Community Associations Institute of NJ and
follow us on Twitter at @CAINJCHAPTER so you don’t miss
anything and can help us to grow our chapter by spreading
the word as you talk with your boards, managers and vendor
colleagues. If you know someone that should be a member
please refer them to me at
laura@cainj.orgor invite them to
join you an event.
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