By Cheryl Murphy, Executive Director, CAI-Illinois
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membem ership base brings diverse perspectiveses, skills, and resources. It exp and enhances the potential to achieve common goalls. By we coming new membe fresh energy and ideas, revitalizing our missi e ng
reasons. “In diversity, there is beauty a d m
el ur mission of CAI? Bring them to an education ess on or event nda d help us g wrow!
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98) In any organiz e colle
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mttees and tasks, and contr buibute to the strat gic goalsa of t lize oe your talents w hithit n A .CAI
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d tionally, being an actiivemem er fostersmeaningful connections. “Y u completeme” ut it reflects the essesence of camar are
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gagement, you will o nd the association its
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from “The Lor o t e Ringsin s: The e lo me that is giv
ve to incr ase membership and embrace act e e Fel owshiip of the s
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6 | COMMON INTEREST®
s c ur gerag , dedic tion r
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o ning CAI to becom ou
bership culmin tes in sha e ect
r u re members say that some of theire r str A .
a in y
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t s shared among omm ted members who have worked toget olu te
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ming an act ve memb r is sim nd a willllingn ss
ven to us.” By cho s nosing to be act ve members, we shape n t onlly our cha rie ce,nce lea ngvin a lastin mp
c iv par crticipatiion h Ring” (2 0 ): Allll c iv
a ting i • Fall 2024 • A Publication of CAI-Illinois Chapter
2001 : “A we hav mbe s
pact on thosehose arou d us oun
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nowl dgment andappre a ionofeachmember’ s or mak ng a pos t v
sitive mpim act in the rib
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r s contriibu ion m nity, s ccess o mo
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milar o het e h ro’ero jous o rn y o tr
n, let s remembmber th t’s
a e to decide is wh tha to do r apter,
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hapter growr w. ey in many of
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