Hey omninoms,

I've gotten backlogged on work this past week and apologize for the urgency of this email. Tonight or tomorrow I'll be sending along two proposals that require relatively rapid response.

Unfortunately, I'm still waiting back on final feedback from Jesse (our lawyer) and a written proposal from The Village, but I wanted to send something out tonight so that it's on folks' radar:

1) Fiscally sponsoring (grant model) a crowdfunding campaign that Daniel launched on October 7th to raise funds for a school in Guatemala that was devastated by a tropical storm: https://www.youcaring.com/escuelaoficialbarriochajsaquil-974517

* Deadline to attach a bank account is October 22nd, but we may be able to retroactively reroute funds sent to a personal bank account.

2) Fiscally sponsoring (project model, possible application for Omni membership) The Village, which has successfully pressured the City of Oakland to declare a Shelter Crisis Ordinance and agree to hand over some city-owned land parcels for them to build viable villages for the homeless and provide wraparound support services.

* Deadline to provide proof of fiscal sponsorship and associated General Liability insurance is October 24th.

There are of course more detailed aspects to each of these proposals, but they remain pending for the time being - our shared deadline is tomorrow before the Delegate's Meeting. In terms of expediting these important projects, we could figure out a way to do this fairly that might include 1) provisional fiscal sponsorship (eg, 1-3 months), 2) abstentions from collectives that have consensus processes but would likely not object, and 3) utilizing old-omni's 501c3 to sponsor The Village, which has the same board as omni but no assets that could be put into jeopardy.

I will post each proposal as a separate post to this list (I've cc'd sudo and all are encouraged to forward to their collectives) sometime over the next 24 hours.

Jenny

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