march is community association awareness month

What's This campaign all about?

Every March, we promote Community Association Awareness Month by celebrating the 156 community associations representing almost 200 neighbourhoods in Calgary.

  • We aim to promote the value community associations bring to their neighbourhoods and encourage residents to sign up as members and volunteers.
  • Community Associations (CAs) are dedicated to ensuring our communities offer a great place to live, work and play. Volunteers lead these organizations. They support neighbourhoods throughout The City by connecting residents and providing a voice for community life while offering social, educational, and recreational opportunities close to home.
  • Every year, more than 20,000 community association volunteers contribute thousands of hours to organize and host social, recreational and educational programs, and events in every neighbourhood across Calgary.
  • Specifically, the March is Community Association Awareness Month campaign promotes the value of community associations by highlighting the various programs, projects, and offerings they make to the community that better neighbourhood life in Calgary.

The City of Calgary partners with The Federation on this campaign.

  • The Mayor issues a proclamation declaring March is Community Association Awareness Month.
  • The City and The Federation post to social media and share stories about community associations. Follow The City @thecityofcalgary on X and Instagram.
  • The City provides in-depth information about community associations, available on their website.

We invite you to #bepartofit! and shout from the mountain tops #ILoveMyCAyyc!

What is a Community Association, you ask?

Community associations (CAs) are dedicated to ensuring our communities offer a great place to live, work and play. Volunteers lead these organizations. They support neighbourhoods throughout The City by connecting residents and providing a voice for community life while offering social, educational, and recreational opportunities close to home.

Community associations have the unique ability to mobilize, support, and interact with their residents to improve neighbourhood life in Calgary.

Everyday, they make significant contributions to the health and well-being of your community. Community associations exist in every neighbourhood in Calgary – they are non-profit organizations run by your neighbours and other volunteers that connect you, act as a voice for your area, and offer you endless opportunities close to home.

Help us amplify this campaign


And spread the good word about the value of community associations and how they support and better their communities!

#ILoveMyCAyyc

#bepartofit!

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