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Center for Community Association Volunteers
Educating and Inspiring Community Leaders

You're a leader in your community, responsible not just for meeting budgets, but also for meeting the expectations of your neighbors. Whatever your role—from board member to treasurer to president—you're expected to solve problems, resolve conflict, and preserve the nature of your community.

You're the reason CAI has created the Center for Community Association Volunteers (CCAV), a specialized member group committed to providing the information and support you need to be a more effective, efficient, and respected leader. You and your community will benefit from practical, common-sense tools and resources developed exclusively for homeowner members.

Best of all, CCAV is an automatic benefit of CAI membership for community association volunteer leaders and homeowners. Benefits from CCAV are yours at no additional cost with your CAI membership.

New benefits in 2005 from CAI and CCAV:

• A Board Member Tool Kit, an easy-to-use manual that outlines the roles and responsibilities of board members, with practical guidelines on topics from elections and finance to governing documents and rules enforcement.

• Minutes, a bimonthly e-newsletter packed with practical tips and information relevant to you and your community.

• A free online homeowner education course.

• A resource center including sample letters, notices, resolutions, standardized forms, and document templates to adapt for use in your community.

• An enhanced members-only area of CAI's website, including answers to commonly asked questions regarding governance issues and an expanded National Service Directory to find suppliers in your area.

• Homeowner orientation information you can use to help residents better understand the nature of association living.

• Increased opportunities to share information, ideas, and solutions with other community leaders.

The Center for Community Association Volunteers is yet another way CAI can help you achieve the results, respect and recognition you deserve.