[SSC] Financial support

[Megan Robertson]

Megan sticks her nose over the fence again:

This strikes at the heart of my earlier question: What do you see yourselves
as doing?

If at least part of your vision of yourselves is as a genuine alternative
way of managing learning and teaching, one of the things you have to address
is how you meet whatever costs you incur.

Using a 'part-time' model means that everyone involved, as student-scholar
and teacher-scholar, has time to earn a living doing something else and so
does not depend on SSC for support. Yet there are still costs: things like
your web presence, room hire for physical meetings (most folks don't have a
front room big enough to host a lecture, even if you could manage to have
3-4 students round for a seminar or tutorial), duplication of teaching
materials, etc.

The 'pay the equivalent of one hour's earnings per month' model seems like a
good baseline to give you some operating cash. Fine for those who HAVE an
income, anyway. Those who are noble enough to want to donate more should
indeed be able to do so. Once things are established, you'll probably have
quite a good idea of how much will be coming in each month.

That's how I see it, anyway. Provided nobody sees SSC as a way to make a
living - as teacher/administrator/tech support or whatever - and you are not
planning any capital purchase like your own premises, you can carry on like
this fine. Even if you eventually decide that you need your own bricks and
mortar, that can be the subject of a dedicated fund-raising project outwith
your day-to-day running costs.

Best wishes,

Megan
FBCS CITP
E-learning specialist
http://www.moodlepoodle.co.uk/


-----Original Message-----
From: ssc-bounces at lists.aktivix.org [mailto:ssc-bounces at lists.aktivix.org]
On Behalf Of Sandie Stratford
Sent: 04 May 2012 20:21
To: rpascoe at phonecoop.coop; ssc at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: Re: [SSC] Financial support

Hi all

In the same way that we aren't (at this time) chasing up people to make sure

they pay up when they become members, we probably wouldn't question someone 
who chooses to pay £100 or even £1000 per month, if they so chose, would we?

We don't examine this information and think 'OK we should pay more attention

to the opinion of X, just because they pay more than Y'.....do we?  Am I 
being naive here?

Sandie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "roland pascoe" <rpascoe at phonecoop.coop>
To: <ssc at lists.aktivix.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 2:19 PM
Subject: [SSC] Financial support


> 1.Offers of financial support
>
> I must admit that I share some of Sarah's concerns. Is there a way of
> creating a new way of doing things without finding ourselves hamstrung
> by financial constraints? How can we harness the support and enthusiasm
> that the open day has created without feeling that the core aims of the
> enterprise have been weakened.
>
> A response to  this might be for there to be a separate entity of a
> charity whose sole purpose is to benefit the SSC. It would allow people
> who want to provide financial support to do so without the SSC being
> totally dependant any one source of finance.Of course there are many
> concerns about the whole idea of "charity" , how can a critical
> enterprise continue to develop innovative new organisational structures(
> or should that be manifestations?) when it gets some of its funding from
> something that stems from one of the oldest and most traditional legal
> structures that this country has?
>
> On the other hand is there a way of making the SSC financially secure in
> the long run, not so that it becomes a money making enterprise but so
> that it can at least offer to pay the cost of services, e.g. graphic
> design etc.
>
> I don't pretend there are easy answers but at least we have to think
> about them.
>
> Roland
>


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