Headquartered in Columbia, MD; Howard County, the Chesapeake Chapter of CAI (CAI/CRC) serves the State of Maryland except for Montgomery, Prince Georges, Frederick, Charles and St. Mary's counties. The Maryland and Delaware Eastern Shore areas are also a part of the Chapter. When an individual, community, or professional joins CAI National, they also become a member of the local chapter based on their personal and/or business address. If a member wishes to choose their chapter, that option is available to them.
The Chesapeake Chapter schedules educational programs for homeowners, board members and community volunteers, as well as the managers/management companies that work with these associations. The Chapter sponsors a variety of social/networking events, including an annual golf outing, a crab feast and a holiday social. One of the most successful events that the Chapter offers is the Annual Symposium/Expo which concentrates on a specific issue relating to the community association industry. With over 90 exhibitor companies, the Expo portion of this event offers tremendous opportunity for homeowners and managers to meet with qualified contractors and business professionals.
On the Eastern Shore, we also offer educational programs, a golf outing and an Annual Expo as well.
The Chapter also offers five educational programs annually, either in person or by webinar. Each focuses on a different subject and draws up to 180 homeowners and management professionals and business partners. Together with the Washington Metro Chapter, CAI/CRC strives to represent community associations by serving on the Maryland Legislative Action Committee (MD-LAC). This committee represents the interests of community association residents and professionals before the Maryland Legislature, Congress and federal agencies. Homeowners, managers and attorneys are given the opportunity to serve on this influential committee.
The Chapter publishes a quarterly newsletter entitled 'The Beacon'.
About CAI
CAI is an international membership organization dedicated to building, creating, and sustaining the world’s best communities. With nearly 50,000 members, CAI has 64 chapters worldwide, including Canada, the Middle East and South Africa, and relationships with housing leaders in countries around the world. CAI enhances community living by establishing and promoting high standards, best practices, and state of the art resources and education in community association governance and management and advocating for legislative and policy support. CAI members include association board members and other homeowner leaders, community managers, association management firms and other professionals who provide products and services to associations.
To maintain consistency throughout our organization, we encourage chapters to adopt these statements in your communications, materials, and branding. By aligning under a unified message, we strengthen the impact and clarity of CAI’s purpose across all levels.
As a next step, CAI Headquarters is developing resources, including graphic templates, to support you in incorporating these updates. We will share these tools with you once they are finalized.
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