Civic Association Toolkit

Special Events Insurance Requirements

Many Federation delegates have raised concerns regarding Special Event Insurance and the Executive Committee has looked into this issue. Executive Committee Chair, Jim Lantelme, and President James Schroll met with County staff about this issue and can provide some clarification regarding when community organizations need to obtain Special Event Insurance. See Special Events Insurance Requirements which explains the instances in which organizations would need to obtain insurance to cover their proposed event. Additionally, SpecEvents Checklist provides guidelines which will help you identify many of the basic requirements for your event. You may also find a list of resources for securing one-time Special Event Liability coverage on p 18 of this PDF [47 KiB].

Best Practices

See Best Practices for Civic Associations, which incorporates many of the pages below and a synopsis summarizing the Federation’s policy.

• How to Organize a Civic Association
• Responsibility and Liability of Non-Profit Board Members [PDF, 490 KiB].
• How to Join the Civic Federation
• Program Ideas: What works and does not work
• Special Events Ideas
• Typical civic association expenses and revenues
• Encouraging diverse groups to participate
• Some useful Internet techniques for civic associations
• A source of articles for newsletter editors
• A mediation service available to neighborhoods
• Our Workshop for Civic Associations – Agenda
• Hints on how to write bylaws
• Bylaws of Federation member organizations
• Members of the Federation
• A Strategic Plan for the Federation