[Chapter-delegates] Chapter financing
Borka Jerman Blazic
borka at e5.ijs.si
Wed Apr 17 07:34:08 PDT 2013
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Borka
ISOC Slovenia
Dne 17.4.2013 16:04, piše Linus Gasser:
> Le 17/04/13 09:12, Jordi Iparraguirre a écrit :
>> Dear all,
>>
>> some weeks ago there was a burst of mails about how could ISOC HQ help
>> chapters via subsidizing basic admin chores so chapter leaders can focus
>> on mission instead of chapter administration.
>>
>> This is something that may not be crucial to very dynamic chapters or
>> chapters in countries where law allows for corporate members, but that
>> is really an issue to the ones in the deadlock of not being able to
>> charge fees because they do not have enough resources to offer appealing
>> payback to members.
>>
>> I was not in Beijing so I could not follow up on the topic, but I do not
>> recall this was covered in the sessions I attended remotely.
>>
>>
>> I'd propose to set an easy minimum common denominator goal and dates in
>> order to move forward.
>>
>> 1- when is the deadline to enter this in the 2014 budget ?
>>
>> 2- can we set up a working group (staff+chapters) in order to get the
>> what, how, how much, etc formal proposal before deadline set in item 1
>> above ?
>>
>> To break the ice:
>> - could it be possible for chapters to receive a monthly amount of, lets
>> say, 20hours/week (ie. 1/2 FTE in local currency) to be paid if and only
>> if the chapter performs a minimum of TBD specific actions/month (eg. 1
>> article /week in the blog, X tweets a day, blog follows ISOC look+feel
>> guidelines, 1 press release is sent every month, 1 public event a month,
>> accounting and tax cleared, .... whatever TBD )
>
> Sounds like a great idea, I have two more questions:
>
> - who will get the money in the organisation? Shall they try to divide
> it equally through the number of persons involved?
>
> - who will verify that the work is done? Some automated process?
>
> Linus
>
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