Outstanding Homeowner Leader Award
The Outstanding Homeowner Leader Award recognizes homeowner leaders who demonstrates outstanding contributions to CAI, the association they serve, and to their surrounding communities. These individuals are committed to and clearly understand their role and fiduciary responsibility as community volunteers. CAI is pleased to recognize the 2025 Outstanding Homeowner Leader: DONNA WAKEMAN
For over 20 years, Donna has been a dedicated board member at Villa Venice Condominium Association — a role in which she has become the heart of the community. Donna knows every homeowner by name, maintains genuine relationships with residents, and serves as a trusted point of contact for countless community concerns.
Her leadership is grounded in compassion, transparency, and service. She consistently goes above and beyond to advocate for residents, resolve issues thoughtfully, and find creative, cost-effective solutions — often without fanfare or personal recognition.
Her contributions span every facet of community management including crisis leadership during a fire, financial stewardship through multiple contract renegotiations, record-keeping, community advocacy with the local village to address serious flooding issues, and project leadership, all while practicing empathy and inclusion.
In a world where few step forward to take on more, Donna continually does more — and then some. Her tireless efforts result in making the community safer, stronger, well maintained, updating the building facilities, funding the reserves, all the while being mindful of costs. Donna truly embodies what it means to be an Outstanding Homeowner Leader.
Andrea Sorgani President’s Award
The Andrea Sorgani President’s Award recognizes the exemplary service of a volunteer and shares the memory of the dedicated CAI leader who we lost in 2021. The award is presented at the discretion of the chapter President to recognize an individual who has displayed exemplary service and commitment to CAI and who has been instrumentational in helping the president achieve CAI’s goals.
This year’s recipient of the Andrea Sorgani President’s Award is ERICA HORNDASCH. Erica is the Vice President of Business Development at Associa Chicagoland. She has been in the Community Association Industry for over 20 years. She has chaired the Conference and Exposition Committee and served six years on the Board of Directors and served as Chapter President in 2013. She is also currently on the Volunteer Commission which assures that all current and future volunteers have a positive experience and was instrumental in creating the Volunteer Appreciation event now held every April.
Erica was awarded the Rising Star in 2006 and the Olympus award in 2011. She has been a great mentor and has great passion for this industry.
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