What is the best way to build a network of WP sites that share the same membership area?

You can setup a multisite network that will cover your 20-30 sites. We run a similar type application where we have a site for each school on our network. From there, you could use the following plugin to automatically add users to your blogs.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-user-management/

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