[Chapter-delegates] Chapter financing

[Charles Oloo]

Dear All

The proposal by Jordi Iparraguirre is very valid. I have personal
experience on this. Evidently, lack of resources, among other factors have
adversely affected the propping up of new chapters especially in Africa, as
opposed to established chapters in the developed world, and can test to it.
We have had similar discussions and talk but are yet to be conclusive on
the way forward. I noted a similar concern in a previous survey but has
never heard it referred.

I therefore fully support this idea and the faster it is considered the
better. Am sure tremendous increase in Chapter activities will suffice with
this noble idea and am willing to jon the working group

Charles Oloo


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Jordi Iparraguirre <ipa at josoc.cat> wrote:

> 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 )
>
> Thanks for your time considering it and apologies if this is already
> running and I'm out of the loop.
>
> rgds,
> jordi
>
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