[Chapter-delegates] Chapter financing

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Dear Jordi,

for the record, I fully support this. Thank you for suggesting this
opportunity.
Kind regards,

Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
ISOC UK England Chair


On 17/04/2013 10:12, Jordi Iparraguirre 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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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
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