Welcome to the Official CARA web site!


New CARA Contact Info:

65 Enterprise
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
Voice: 949-715-4192
FAX: 949-715-6931

New CARA Email Address:

Now you can use info@CAresearchers.org to communicate with CARA administrative staff!!


Dear Colleagues,

Happy New Year!

This year, 2008, will be very special to CARA members as it will mark our 15th anniversary!  We’re so excited to reach this milestone and have so many new things in progress to benefit our members!

As some of you may already know, CARA’s former administrator, Rebecca Benard, has resigned to pursue a career in development.  As such, CARA has contracted with a new association management company, The Droz Group.  We are experiencing a few transitional glitches as we embark on a major database conversion, web site host transition and upgrade, and general policy and operations review.  Please be patient with us as we work towards better records management, online registration forms with the ability to accept credit cards, and much, much more. 

We are in the planning stages for upcoming regional Seminar Days as well as the Annual CARA Conference.  Our Basic Training Workshop is being offered again this year and will be taught by Michael Quevli, a former CARA board member and Solutions Strategist, Prospect Management & Identification with Kintera, Inc.  The first training will be held in Southern California at the UC Irvine University Club in Irvine on February 22, the second in Northern California at the UC Berkeley Extension Offices in San Francisco on April 18, and the last one will be held in conjunction with the Annual CARA Conference on October 23-24 in Southern California at the Crown Plaza Irvine.  Scholarships are being offered for both the Basic Training Workshops and the Annual CARA Conference.  Check the web site for details to be posted.

Please join me in welcoming our newest board members:  Sandra Campero, Dori Cavala, and Gary Lance, who hold the Volunteer Chair, Membership Chair, and Treasurer positions, respectively.  I would like to also thank Marah Katz for her great work as the Regional Chair for Northern California.  She resigned in December and has started a new position as the Assistant Director of Development, Annual Giving at the Stanford Law School. 

CARA is always looking for good volunteers.  It’s one of the best ways to meet your peers and expand your network.  Take the opportunity to get involved!  Why not work closely with a CARA Board member, make a presentation, write a piece for the newsletter, or help out at a Seminar Day?  Make those connections that will last your career. 

N. Dori Watanabe
President

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