Alliance Management Network Members Honored With Awards
(Farmington Hills, MI) - Two members of the Alliance Management Network, a national consortium of community association managment firms, were honored with prestigious awards recently.
RTI/Community Management Associates, Inc., (dba CMA) was selected as a 2006 recipient of the prestigious American Business Ethics Award. CMA was honored as a winner of the Greater Dallas Business Ethics Award earlier this year.
The Society of Financial Service Professional (www.financialpro.org.) recognizes the ethical corporate behavior of businesses that can serve as role models for others. The Society established the American Business Ethics Award in 1994 to honor and showcase companies that exemplify high standards of ethical behavior in their everyday business conduct and in response to specific crises or challenges.
“CMA’s core values and the character of our people enable our company to ‘do the right thing’ as our standard operating procedure for serving clients,” said Judi Phares, president and CEO of the company. “It’s a great honor to be recognized, but earning the trust of customers is our best measure of success.”
CMA employs a staff of more than 100 at its corporate headquarters in Plano, Texas, and on site at properties the company manages in the Dallas, Collin County, the Mid-Cities and South Texas. Its clients include a roster of homeowners’ association boards and developers of more than 160 exclusive residential communities. The 23-year old company serves residential and commercial developers and homeowners associations by managing the administrative and financial affairs of the non-profit organizations that govern homeowners’ groups.
Entries for the ABEA award are evaluated by an independent panel of judges composed of individuals with expertise in business ethics and are drawn from the business, academic, public service media and consulting communities. Winners must demonstrate their commitment to a corporate code of ethics in their conduct and communications through an extensive submission and evaluation process. Past winners have included large corporations such as Trammell Crow, EDS and Whirlpool, as well as outstanding small and mid-size companies in a variety of industries across the U.S. CMA, RTI/Community Management Associates, Inc., www.cmamanagement.com
National Association of Women Business Owners - presented a Remarkable Women Award to Melinda Masson, CEO of The Merit Companies. Women manage and own businesses, raise families, volunteer their talents and time, run for office, and contribute to the community in many other ways. Thousands of women participate in more than one hundred women's professional and trade organizations throughout Orange County. In 1996, to recognize the outstanding members who contribute their time and talent to these associations and to the community, NAWBO-OC established the Annual Remarkable Women Awards. Constituents from all over the county gather together to honor their organization's Member of the Year at this event. The goal is to create strong affiliations among members and leaders of these organizations, and provide them with valuable community exposure. This year's winner, Melinda Masson, CEO of The Merit Companies, represents the success that is in direct proportion to the firm's ability to distinguish itself from the competition.
When Masson started in the early 1980s, most property managers ran apartments or office buildings. She focused on working with real estate developers from the initial stages of large planned communities and working directly for homeowners associations of condominiums or planned communities.
By being on the ground floor of some of the largest planned communities, including Rancho Santa Margarita Ranch, Merit has become the largest privately held community association management company in the nation. The Merit Companies - www.themeritcos.com
The Alliance Management Network is proud of the honors given to two of its members. The Alliance members have an extraordinary reputation for establishing long-term relationships with the communities they serve. This can only be accomplished through hard work, dedicated professionalism and an understanding of how to deal with the needs of individual community associations and the home owners who live in them. "The members of the Alliance Management Network came together to create a strong national identity that would attract and retain a nationwide customer base due to unmatched professionalism through value-added service programs." In addition to RTI/Community Management Associates and The Merit Companies, the Alliance numbers Legum & Norman, Inc., Association Managment, Inc. and Rampart Properties, Inc. among its members. www.alliancemanagement.net