[Chapter-delegates] Day-to-day funding

[Edwin A. Opare]

Elver,

Well said.

Any ideas, thoughts or suggestions on chapter sustainability especially
when membership dues are not coming through and a chapter does not have any
corporate members and their relating support on board?

Edwin Opare

Ghana Chapter

NB: views expressed here are my personal views and not the chapter's.
On Mar 11, 2013 6:00 PM, "David Vyorst" <dvyorst at gmail.com> wrote:

> Elver,
> Please let me know what you get back on this. It is perhaps the key issue
> in terms of chapter sustainability and ISOC's relationship to its chapters.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Elver Loho <elver.loho at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Dealing with everyday chapter issues takes a lot of time and effort.
>> Last week I was sitting on the council of the Data Protection
>> Inspectorate discussing legislation regarding personal data. Today I
>> was at the parliament's constitutional commission discussing Open Data
>> implementation. Preparing for these meetings, taking part, and later
>> reporting to the board and members takes a full day's work for each
>> event. And we haven't yet figured out how to fund such activities.
>>
>> Can anyone shed some light on how day-to-day funding has been resolved
>> at your chapter?
>>
>> I'd like to hear about workable funding models, which would let us
>> keep 2-3 salaried positions. Running all of this for no salary for
>> over two years has been highly successful (NGO of the year 2012,
>> prevented ACTA from being signed, biggest peaceful public protest in
>> the country's history, helped create the best law of 2012 bringing
>> Open Data into Estonian legislation, etc.), but I'm also broke right
>> now and have no medical insurance, so, yeah... It's probably not a
>> sustainable model of getting things done. And donations simply don't
>> work in a small country like Estonia.
>>
>> Best,
>> Elver Loho
>> Estonia Chapter
>>
>> elver.loho at gmail.com
>> +372 5661 6933
>> skype: elver.loho
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