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BOMI Institute Renews Cornerstone Partnership with BOMA International
The Building Owners and Managers Institute (BOMI), a nonprofit institute dedicated to educating professionals who operate, manage and maintain properties and facilities, recently renewed its Cornerstone Partnership with a pledge of $50,000 to support the activities of the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International.
Cornerstone Partners represent the highest level of investment an organization can make in supporting BOMA's vital programs in advocacy, education, research and membership. BOMA International's partnership program, developed in 2004, allows companies to invest in their own success and viability, as well as that of the industry. With three levels of participation (Cornerstone Partner ($50,000), Leadership Circle ($25,000), and Supporting Partner ($10,000)), the program has benefited industry organizations that offer a wide range of services to commercial real estate professionals.
"Our Cornerstone Partners gain access to our association's leaders, offering the ability to debate industry issues and strategize for our organizations' collective futures in an entirely new way," said BOMA International Chairman and Chief Elected Officer David W. Hewett, RPA, CPM, CCIM, FMA, CFM, principal for Trammell Crow Company, Auburn Hills, Michigan. "It only makes sense that one of the industry's leaders in education aligns with us to that degree, particularly since BOMA International and the BOMI Institute have teamed together on a variety of projects for as long as we've each been in existence. Partners like BOMI provide all of us with the kind of synergy that our members deserve in today's fast paced and competitive environment, and seeing this level of commitment from BOMI demonstrates that they recognize that fact as clearly as we do. We're happy to welcome them back for another year as a Cornerstone Partner."
"BOMI Institute and BOMA International share many of the same goals, with education always emerging as one of our most important," added BOMI Institute Chairman Dennis Adams. "Our Cornerstone Partnership with BOMA marks our commitment to designing education that meets member and association needs for today and tomorrow. The Cornerstone Partnership serves our shared audience-the commercial property and facilities professionals."
Also in 2006, BOMA International and the BOMI Institute are collaborating to deliver a series of live seminars, Webcasts and online courses for real estate professionals. The two organizations share a full-time instructional designer as part of the new initiative.
Four six-hour live seminars, taught in a traditional classroom format, are being developed with input from both organizations, and four live Webcast seminars will be jointly developed by the two organizations. Online courses, or eSeminars, available 24/7, will round out the new educational offerings from the BOMA/BOMI collaboration. Three of the eSeminars will be three-hour programs, addressing topics such as property condition assessments, building security and tenant retention, with the first course scheduled to debut in April. The remaining eSeminars will be 60-minute modules to be developed from the top-rated and attended sessions at BOMA's 2005 and 2006 Commercial Real Estate Congresses.
BOMI's mission is to provide learning opportunities that enhance individual performance and add value to organizations in the building and facilities industry. BOMI's educational offerings include training for property managers, facilities managers, building engineers, and building technicians. The Institute offers individual courses, customized group programs, and four professional designation programs: Real Property Administrator (RPA); Facilities Management Administrator (FMA); Systems Maintenance Administrator (SMA); and Systems Maintenance Technician (SMT). More than 20,000 professionals hold one or more BOMI designations, and nearly 10,000 students register for individual courses each year. For more information, visit www.bomi.org.
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