Remembering Champlain Towers: Honoring the victims, promoting resilience
As we mark the third anniversary of the Champlain Towers South tragedy in Surfside, Fla., CAI honors the memory of the victims and reiterates its commitment to promoting safety and resilience within community associations. CAI remains dedicated to providing education, resources, and support to community associations to protect the lives, well-being, and investments of all community residents.
Structural maintenance: Fla. condominium prioritizes prevention
When the Champlain Tower South condominium in Surfside, Fla., partially collapsed three years ago this month, Daniel Gonzalez was in bed just an hour away in Boca Raton. His immediate reaction was to commission a structural inspection on their nearly 50-year-old building. Gonzalez advises managers and boards facing the recertification process to be hypervigilant about structural maintenance.
Financial management: Understanding how community managers drive sound decisions
Community association managers wear many hats and must be well versed in a wide range of skills, all of which are equally important. One component of a manager’s role is to completely understand the financial management aspects of a business. This means knowing and interpreting the financial pieces as well as the nuances that come along with decisions.
Community Association Managers Day: Recognize, celebrate, appreciate
I’m proud to celebrate International Community Association Managers Day. It reminds me to recognize my esteemed colleagues for their skill and recommit to sharing important information that advances the community management industry. Learn more about the talented and hard-working professional managers who support condominiums, homeowners associations, and housing cooperatives. And join CAI in celebrating them.
Volunteer service: Community associations, CAI chapters give back
Community service events bring positive public awareness to community associations and the community management profession. Community associations and CAI chapters are more involved than ever in building community and establishing strong and meaningful relationships through volunteer service efforts.
Mental Health Awareness Month: Improving well-being in the workforce
Stress and mental health issues in the workplace are a pandemic that is far larger than COVID-19 or any other disease currently or recently dealt with in the world. Stigma about mental health still exists, but progress is being made, and there are strategies that can be taken to mitigate it.
Corporate Transparency Act: CAI challenges act’s constitutionality in court filing
Community Associations Institute filed an amicus brief earlier this week in the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit challenging the constitutionality of the Corporate Transparency Act. Enacted by Congress in 2021, the act requires businesses, including community associations, to register with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. CAI supports the act’s intent to bolster transparency and counter money laundering and terrorist financing efforts but believes it should not apply to community associations.
Community NOW: Conference education, party wrap up inspiring event
The 2024 CAI Annual Conference and Exposition: Community NOW wrapped up with a final set of education sessions to inform and motivate. Topics ranged from technology management to ethics challenges, governance blind spots, and more. Check our recap and scroll through some photo highlights.
Community NOW: Life is Good keynote speaker uplifts attendees
Bert Jacobs, co-founder of lifestyle brand Life Is Good, served as the keynote speaker at CAI’s 2024 CAI Annual Conference & Exposition. According to Jacobs, changing mindsets to embrace opportunities and listening to others will pay dividends in overall life satisfaction. He outlined a simple formula he uses to live to the fullest.
Community NOW Day 2: Conference education sessions motivate, inform
Day two of the 2024 CAI Annual Conference and Exposition: Community NOW introduced attendees to the first set of education sessions to inform and motivate. Topics ranged from artificial intelligence to the Corporate Transparency Act, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and more.
