I - C A R E - A S A P – Assoc.

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I-CARE-ASAP Assoc. Mission Statement Ethics Statement Contact Info. 2731 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60614 Ph. 773-528-9077 ~ Fx. 773-528-8848 ?2000-2008

I - C A R E - A S A P ?Assoc. Independent Construction And Real Estate Applications, Services And Providers Association

M I S S I O N   S T A T E M E N T

The primary goal and mission is “to support the success of member business the industry and establish and environment and ethos for cooperation and collaboration, education and best practices”. The first two pillars of the organization are the following Mission Statement and the Code of Ethics. These principals and ideals establish the not-for-profit association dedicated to help the industry and our members grow and prosper. Recognizing the benefits of professional association and organized trade associations incorporated to gather together peers and represent them, our members join together with the mission to promote, practice and police our industry and this association. These principals are the guiding direction for a proud-full profession and are expounded upon as follows:

• Promote: The promotion of our industry as an engine of economic growth and value toward our target marketplace of customers and to the public in general is paramount to our success as members and as an industry and an Association. Promotion frequently includes such methods as positive public relations, press releases, public-service announcements, industry alerts, co-marketing, joint advertising, maintaining and use of mailing lists and directories, social, educational and political events, peer-recognitions and awards, trade shows & conventions, educational symposiums, outings and similar efforts. To promote in association with each other can create authority, economy and effectiveness to our collective and shelter the sometimes loan voice of our individual members.
• Practice: Best practices, current methods and new inventions are all critical to our fast and technical industry and those we serve. The association will act as a clearinghouse for the collection, collaboration and peer review of industry practices. We avoid evaluating one practice or practitioner over another in favor of recognizing the contributions of each and the efforts of all. But this broadest industry vision will, from time to time, be focused by the occasional unifying view of recognized standards or best practices which can serve to propel the industry despite or over the lesser benefits of diversity. Thus is the nature of technology; to stand on the shoulders of giants but hear the voices of “who’s next??and or “who’s best??
• Police: An industry that polices itself helps guarantee judgment by its peers and avoids public reticule and over regulation. To police the principals and practices of members is to protect the good name of the industry and the effectiveness of this association. The first principals of the association is based on this Mission Statement and its corresponding Code of Ethics. All rules and rulings that stem there from will find validity through open and due process. All rules and rulings will find fairness by avoiding petty, private or political guile. And to further guarantee fair policing of its members, each member shall also bear the individual right to present its case against any member or the association, itself. To police and protect the industry and it’s members from untruths, unreasonable regulation, unfair practices or poor professionalism is simply the watchful defense of our industry and the livelihoods of our members and the safeguarding of the promotion, practices and profession which are espoused in this mission statement.

I - C A R E - A S A P - Assoc.

• I. The key responsibilities of our member are to them selves, their customers, employees, fellow members, and the general public, and the communities in which they live and work. Members will ply their trade as responsible corporate citizens with honesty, integrity, equity and fair-dealings and join together to develop and promote quality, industry, standards and practices and to promote and these ideals. Customers are first. And, first among our customers are those of the various residential and commercial real estate and construction fields whom we strive to provide products and services for and earn a prideful-living with.
• II. Our products and services strive to use good practices and craftsmanship, incorporating high standards of ingenuity, value, safety, ease of use, integration, growth, long-life and future uses and service. Members shall act professionally, making good faith efforts to meet contractual, moral and ethical and social obligations and commitments regarding their business activities and personal dealings and shall espouse and promote these behaviors in word and deed.
• V. Members have a responsibility to keep informed of, engaged in and help guide the laws, regulations, public policies, impressions, and public information of our trade and educate ourselves and present to others such things as will affect our industry and the industry of our customers.
• VI. Members shall be loyal to the Association each other and shall refrain from engaging in words or deeds which are untrue, counter-productive or derogatory to the work of the Association, fellow members or of the industry. No Member shall illegally attempt to injure with malice, directly or indirectly, the professional reputation, customer, prospects, business, or employment of a member or the Association; nor shall they carelessly criticize another’s work in public or bring shame or rebuke. No Member shall act illegally or with reckless disregard or seek illegally unfair advantage over fellow members. If controversies, allegations, or violations of this Code or the Association byelaws arise or a Member believes another has violated, the Association shall first seek to resolve such controversy through the Association’s dispute resolution procedures which shall be in keeping with comparable national procedures for fact finding, mediation and/or arbitration and/or disputes and shall present each such case to the Board of Directors or it’s ethics committee for a hearing, determination and relief. The most severe limit to any relief or finding of violation is a.) expulsion from the organization, b.) public notice and promotion of such expulsion and c.) a fine not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) and no member or ex-member may take any legal action against the Association for loss or damages alleged or actual as a result of an ethics ruling which is affirmed by the ethics committee. All Ethics committee rulings may be appealed to the Association or its executive committee within 30 days by notice.