[MACCAWS] Staffing (was: Day twelve - Decisions, Decisions, Decisions - Finace)

On Monday, July 22, 2002, at 12:08 AM, Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:

> As to a finance person, my opinion as there are no financial issues
> now or in the *short term* future, I'm not too concerned about it.
> Certainly if somebody wants to step up great. But I'd venture we
> could leave it open until the need arises, rather than shove someone
> in just to have them there if nobody volunteers.

A note from my experience with WaSP: when we looked into accepting 
donations, it came to light that, in the U.S. at least, there were 
strict rules regarding organization and handling of finances in 
non-profit organizations. To make everything legal would really 
have required a lawyer and an accountant. We decided /not/ to 
accept monetary donations but instead to rely on services donated 
by members (including things like several members forking over 
the $ for printed brochures and the like). The donators simply 
wrote the expenses off as marketing or the like and WaSP avoided 
the hassle of being an official org.

Someone else may know more about this and be able to correct me, 
but I believe accepting monetary donations is more trouble than 
it's worth for a very focused group like this. That being the case, 
a financial position is 'redundant,' to use a corporate euphemism.


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