[sudo-discuss] Proposal: Safer DIY Spaces group as OC fiscally-sponsored project - project model

[Marc Juul]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
>

Sounds great! Money for Omni and supporting an aligned cause. Any downsides
I'm missing? (other than the fact that finance working group will have to
do more work).

-- 
marc/juul
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