The Community Associations Institute celebrates its 25th anniversary this year by embarking on a new initiative to study community associations nationwide and map a plan of action to help them face the challenges of the new millenium. Under the leadership of the New Ventures Task Force, CAI plans to collect data on community associations, conduct opinion polls and bring together experts from across the country to define the state of the industry today and redefine the condominium, cooperative and homeowners associations of the future.

Major goals of the New Ventures Task Force are:

Building leadership and community spirit, Making community associations less bureaucratic, Rethinking the rule-making and rules enforcement processes, and Training board members for the complex job of managing and operating community associations.

CAI will use this information to give every community association the tools it needs to live up to its responsibilities as a business, a government and a community.

The Community Associations Institute is a nonprofit association created in 1973 to educate and represent the nation’s 150,000 community associations—condominium associations, homeowner associations and cooperatives. CAI members include homeowners, associations and the professionals who provide products and services to them.