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JACLYN OLSZEWSKI
| DIRECTOR, EVENTS & EDITORIAL
The 2017 Annual Awards Dinner
date has been changed to
Thursday, February 16, 2017.
Please mark your calendars
with the new date!
E
ach year CAI-NJ recognizes excellence in our industry
during the Annual Awards Dinner. This event focuses
on you, our members, and the contributions that you
make to the community association industry. Please note
the date of this event has changed. This grand affair is set
to be held on Thursday, February 16, 2017 at the Palace
at Somerset Park. For anyone who has not attended this in
the past, I highly recommend that you join us. The creative
details that the awards committee design and bring to life
along with the effervescent atmosphere of the event itself
make the Annual Awards Dinner a must attend event to kick
off the year! This event continues to grow at a rapid pace
with increases in attendance that provides guests with more
and more networking opportunities.
One of the greatest ways to participate in this event, is
through the nomination process. CAI-NJ has opened up the
nominations to all CAI-NJ members for categories includ-
ing, Committee of the Year, Committee Chair of the Year,
and Candice Bladt Manager of the Year. For the first year
ever, we have opened up two new nomination categories.
Community of the Year is now open for nominations. We
strongly encourage our vendors, managers and community
boards to submit nominations for the boards that you work
with and volunteer on. Please send in your nomination
along with supporting documents to help CAI-NJ determine
which community will win the inaugural award. Please note
that three (3) board members from the community must be
members in good standing of CAI-NJ to be eligible for the
award. If you are unsure of the status of a board, feel free
to contact the CAI-NJ office. Please use the nomination
packet on pages 36-38 of this issue of
Community Trends
®
.
The CAI-NJ F.A.S.T. is also introducing an award to be
handed out at the Awards Dinner, the Outstanding Young
Professional Award. This award will be granted to a young
professional in our industry who makes a difference in
others’ lives through volunteer work, self-sacrificing spirit,
diligence, reliability, determination, and follow through. If
you have a young professional in your organization that
you would like to nominate, please use the form on page
65 of this issue of
Community Trends
®
.
I hope you will consider joining us to celebrate your
accomplishments as well as your peers who have given
so much to CAI-NJ this past year. If you have any questions
regarding this, or any other events please feel free to con-
tact me at
jaclyn@cainj.orgor 609-588-0030.
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