Hey sudoers,

Last week I met with the Safer DIY Spaces group, which the delegates approved to provisionally fiscally sponsor under a grant-making model back in December. At the Delegate's Meeting on Thursday, there was consensus to provisionally approve the proposal, with full approval pending some time to check in with the individual collectives.

They have been doing incredible work (providing consulting and walkthroughs for dozens of spaces in danger as well as participating in shaping future code compliance policies at the city-wide level) and have many more spaces they're still working on. However, the grant-making model of fiscal sponsorship has been rather unwieldy (they need to submit a grant request to allocate their own funds, which Finance then signs off on, then Finance has to write checks out to them, etc etc).

This proposal is to fully fiscally sponsor Safer DIY Spaces as a project-based model, enabling them to write checks and make debit card purchases from their own subaccount (which is where their funds have already been going).

This was the proposal Laura sent to Consensus on Dec. 14th, which is being modified to provide sponsorship under a project-based rather than grant-based model with an adjusted admin fee of 5% (which is the same fee we charge Real Vegan Cheese):

https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2016-December/000984.html

The above-linked proposal contains more info about the project, its mission, activities, origin story and organizing structure. They have been meeting weekly at Omni since December.

Check signers on this account are to be Isaac Amala and Sinuba Dreem.

This sponsorship agreement would be applicable retroactively to April 1st, 2017 with an admin fee of 5% (same as Real Vegan Cheese).

If we could pass this at the next Delegate's Meeting on May 4th, that would be wonderful and enable them to access their own funds in a more timely fashion, as much of their work is time-sensitive (eg prepping spaces for surprise inspections, life-safety improvements, etc)

If you have any further questions, the DIY group can be reached at: saferdiyspaces [AT] gmail [DOT] com (cc'd)