UMES Club Managers Association of America

The Club Managers Association of America (CMAA) is the professional Association for managers of membership clubs. CMAA has close to 6,500 members across all classifications. Our manager members operate more than 2,500 country, golf, athletic, city, faculty, military, town and yacht clubs. The objectives of the Association are to promote and advance friendly relations among persons connected with the management of clubs and other associations of similar character; to encourage the education and advancement of members; and to assist club officers and members, through their managers, to secure the utmost in efficient and successful operations. CMAA is headquartered in Alexandria, VA, with 30 staff, 45 professional chapters and more than 45 student chapters and colonies.

CMAA provides its members with the expertise to deliver an exceptional club experience that fulfills the unexpressed needs and desires of its members and guests consistent with their lifestyles. We enhance our members’ success by offering professional leadership development, ethical standards and responsive services.

CMAA's Lifetime Professional Development Program prepares our members to lead, succeed, innovate, stretch boundaries, expand expertise and create a thriving club environment. Remaining steadfast to our mission and our long tradition of stellar professional development opportunities, CMAA works with a dynamic assemblage of committed, competent and highly regarded educators in the hospitality and club industry to ensure that CMAA members benefit from an authentic academic experience. Each of CMAA’s educational endeavors – inclusive of the Business Management Institutes, webinars and online education available through CMAA University – are developed using the highest academic standards.

Established by CMAA in 1988 with the mission of raising funds to financially support the professional development of club managers through education, outreach and research
initiatives, The Club Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that has distributed funds in excess of $5.5 million to support scholarship and grant programs which benefit students, faculty, club management professionals, CMAA chapters and the industry at large

• Annually, The Club Foundation provides more than $600,000 to the club industry through grants and scholarships.

• Since 1988, more than 160 undergraduate scholarships have been awarded totaling nearly $300,000.

• Each of the 45 current CMAA chapters have received program assistance through a Club Foundation grant.

• More than 40 percent of the recipients of the Willmoore H. Kendall Scholarship have earned their CCM and an additional 36 percent are actively working towards this achievement.