Building Community: Proven Strategies for Turning Homeowners into Neighbors

"The difference between a community association and a neighborhood housekeeping organization has everything to do with the values and priorities of the people who lead them." —Brent E. Harrington Does your association have what it takes to be a community builder? Does your association have the rocket fuel that blasts volunteers into action? Does your association aspire to civic well-being? Does your association engender a sense of community pride? Does your association provide leadership and inspiration? Does your association promote a sense of shared responsibility among residents? If you answered No to any of these questions, this book is for you! Build stronger, more active, more caring communities by following the simple advice offered here by the nation's top experts on community associations and the people who lead them. CAI went back to the drawing board to meet its customers' needs and came up with the concept for this practical, strategy-oriented guidebook. This book is intentionally designed to be collaborative and anecdotal. Many of the industry's best management and legal practitioners share their successes, their best practices, with you in their own words. Try out those practices that seem workable for your community and run with them—refine and improve on them. Help us continue to raise the bar as we serve our country in perhaps its most important area—at the grass roots community level. If September 11th has taught us anything, it's the importance of our connection and interactions as Americans. As such, what higher mission could possibly get us out of bed in the morning than helping people make a difference in their communities? Thankfully, the practical tools to do so just keep on growing with Community Associations Institute (CAI) publications.