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Cover Image How to Market your Professional Services How to Market your Professional Services

I have continually added to my list of suggestions and organized them into activities to be accomplished before, during, and after such conferences. This paper represents the fourth major revision...

Reports  Coop Management
Cover Image Maintenance Planning in your Housing Cooperative Maintenance Planning in your Housing Cooperative

This Guide will help you plan and manage maintenance. It outlines the reasons why maintenance is important, the various types of maintenance, the steps in the ongoing maintenance cycle, and...

Reports  Coop Management
Cover Image Management & Marketing Plan Management & Marketing Plan

This Plan becomes an Exhibit to the Management Agreement that the owner, agent, and the Agency execute at the initial loan closing, and is a binding contractual obligation during the...

Article  Coop Management
Cover Image Management Contingency - Succession Plan Management Contingency – Succession Plan

The organization’s leadership should know what needs to be executed to continue operations and protect assets in the event of the sudden, unexpected absence of the chief executive officer

Article  Coop Management
Cover Image Management Housing Assets Guide Management Housing Assets Guide

This guide provides information on building maintenance, capital planning, capital renewals (including the repair/replacement of existing building components), and new construction projects for non-profit housing societies and co-operatives. These resources...

Reports  Coop Tools
Cover Image Management Model - Enabling Staff Management Model – Enabling Staff

In certain situations, it is prudent to delegate authority to staff to assume previously exclusive board responsibilities.

Article  Coop Management
Cover Image Management Survey guide Management Survey guide

Before changing your management techniques, take a few minutes to be sure you understand the entire issue.

Cheat Sheets  Coop Management
Cover Image Managing Agents and Board Members Could Have Liability for Failing to Prevent Tenant-on-Tenant Racial Harassment Managing Agents and Board Members Could Have Liability for Failing...

Last month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in the case of Francis v. Kings Park Manor, Inc. reversed the dismissal of a race discrimination complaint...

Article  Coop Management
cover Image Managing Cooperative Antitrust Risk Managing Cooperative Antitrust Risk

This report explains the essentials of antitrust law and why the limited antitrust protection granted in the Capper-Volstead Act is critical to cooperative marketing by agricultural producers.

Guides  Coop Management
Cover Image Managing Your Manager Managing Your Manager

This pamphlet provides practical advice to tenant associations and cooperatives that currently employ a professional manager or are considering hiring one. It contains information on hiring and interviewing, drafting an...

Guides  Coop Management
Cover Image Managing Your Manager UHAB Managing Your Manager UHAB

This resource offers practical advice for building tenants who presently employ a professional manager or are considering hiring one.

Article  Coop Management
Cover Image Marketing Legal Compliance Marketing Legal Compliance

We asked real-life tech marketers to tell us what’s REALLY going on behind the scenes at their companies regarding a very vexing subject: legal compliance.

Guides  Coop Management
Cover Image Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Disaster Toolkit Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Disaster Toolkit

The leadership of the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) strongly believes that, as fair housing professionals, we have a responsibility to ensure that persons affected by disaster...

Reports  Coop Emergency Preparedness
Cover Image Organization and Management of Cooperative Housing Associations Organization and Management of Cooperative Housing Associations

It is thought that this pamphlet will be particularly timely in view of the renewed interest in the provision of low-cost housing, which is now evident, and in view of...

Guides  Coop Management
Cover Image Personal & Neighborhood Emergency Preparedness Handbook Personal & Neighborhood Emergency Preparedness Handbook

In this guide, you will find suggestions to help prepare yourself and your neighborhood or community in the event of an emergency or disaster.

Reports  Coop Emergency Preparedness
Cover Image Personal workplace disaster supplies kit Personal workplace disaster supplies kit

For the workplace, where you might be confined for several hours or perhaps overnight, the following supplies are recommended.

Article  Coop Emergency Preparedness