[Chapter-delegates] Day-to-day funding

[borka at e5.ijs.si]

+1

Well said.  Our law does not  allow for non-for-profit
association as it is  ISOC-SI  corporate members. So, we do not have any
donations or similar income. The work is done
by volunteers, but for how long (we are paying the
accounting clerk as we must provide each year
to the tax office a financial  report)?

The demands to the chapters from
ISOC staff are rising every day  and it seems that  chapters  are working 
for an association with quite a big and  paid staff  without knowing  why 
we must do that and why we must
change the current modest voluntary support we have from our members.
The European chapters had a meeting in Frankfurt on December 17th,
three or four  ISOC 
staff people attended the meeting but so far no Minutes appeared from the 
meeting. However, in the same time  ISOC is requesting the chapters to 
send  Minutes from their 
meetings and to run extensive  membership administration,  what is the basis 
for  that request?


With regards,

Borka
ISOC Slovenia.


On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Edwin A. Opare wrote:

> 
> 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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