About

HOAresources.com provides information and tools for condominium and homeowners associations leaders. The site is powered by Community Associations Institute (CAI).

Since 1973, CAI has been the leading provider of resources and information for homeowners, volunteer board leaders, professional managers, and business professionals in 369,000 homeowners associations (HOAs, POAs), condominiums, and housing cooperatives in the United States and millions of communities worldwide.

With more than 50,000 members, CAI works in partnership with 36 legislative action committees and 64 affiliated chapters within the U.S., Canada, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as with housing leaders in several other countries, including Australia, Spain, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom. A global nonprofit 501(c)(6) organization, CAI is the foremost authority in community association management, governance, education, and advocacy.

Our mission is to inspire professionalism, effective leadership, and responsible citizenship—ideals reflected in community associations that are preferred places to call home. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Site Contributors

Dawn M. Bauman, CAE, Chief Executive Officer. She previously served as CAI’s chief strategy officer and senior vice president of Government & Public Affairs in which she was the lead advocate for federal and state legislative and regulatory affairs and worked with hundreds of volunteer leaders throughout the country serving on CAI legislative action committees and CAI government affairs committees to advocate for strong and sensible public policy for America’s community associations. Bauman has been with CAI since 1996 and has dedicated her career to the practice of non-profit management and advocacy. She began her career with the American Cancer Society and has since served as executive director for The ALS Association (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) Valley of the Sun, Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations, National Society of Fund Raising Executives and Arizona Association of Defense Counsel.

Laura Otto, Senior Editor, Digital Content. Laura oversees digital content for CAI. A seasoned journalist, Laura previously worked for a creative, advocacy agency in Washington, D.C., where she wrote and edited content for a variety of public health clients. Prior to that, Laura served as a senior writer and editor for the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Laura is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia.

Joni Lucas, editor of Common Ground magazine. Previously, she has held a variety of communications roles including reporter, editor, and photographer. She built a monthly magazine for a national association of workplace safety experts and most recently served as communications and marketing strategist for an organization serving eldercare communities throughout North America. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, Joni lives in Rockville, Md., and is the proud parent of three young adults.