[Chapter-delegates] Chapter financing

[Winthrop Yu]

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On 4/17/2013 10:43 PM, JOHN MORE wrote:
> Jordi
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> I fully support your proposal, joining with David Vyorst from the Washington DC Chapter. Based my experience with other activist organizations, I feel every Chapter could use having at least a part-time paid staff person to provide administrative services. Even better if the staff person has received ISOC training on the principles and goals of the Society and been vetted in some way as to his/her effectiveness and qualifications. There would need to be standards for what Chapters were set up to make use of staff person and for meeting goals. I also believe that the Chapter would need to raise some funds themselves (adjusted to reflect the local economy). Otherwise you are continuing with a dependent relationship.
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>>From what I see Society is organizing to figure how best to support and strengthen Chapters.
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> John More
> Treasurer, ISOC-DC
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Apr 17, 2013, at 4:12 AM, Jordi Iparraguirre <ipa at josoc.cat> wrote:
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>> Dear all,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> I'd propose to set an easy minimum common denominator goal and dates in order to move forward.
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>> 1- when is the deadline to enter this in the 2014 budget ?
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>> 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 ?
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>> 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 )
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>> Thanks for your time considering it and apologies if this is already running and I'm out of the loop.
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>> rgds,
>> jordi
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>> Jordi Iparraguirre
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