Re: Handling donations | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Richard L Kohlhaas (rlkohlearthlink.net) | |
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:31:02 -0800 (PST) |
Here is our donation policy, established six years after movein, which has been in effect for 5 years with no controversy: {SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1} COLORADO SPRINGS COHOUSING COMMUNITY at Casa Verde Commons COMMUNITY PROPERTY POLICY July 20, 2009 Established by Maintenance, Common House, and Landscape Maintenance Teams. Background: One of the main tenets of cohousing is sharing of resources. A large amount of material (furniture, garden tools, kitchen items, etc.) has been donated or loaned to the Casa Verde community over the years, for the use of all the residents. However, at some point, we may have enough rakes, wheelbarrows, linens, etc., so items to be donated should not be anonymously placed in any community common spaces. 1. Items (supplies, furniture, tools, kitchen items, equipment, etc) may be offered to the community as: : Unconditional donation: Community may then modify, sell, scrap, or otherwise dispose of the item at any time . Indefinite loan: Community will return item when it is no longer needed, or upon request of the owner. . Loan for a specific period: Community will return item to owner at the end of the period. 2. Any item to be offered for donation or loan to the community must be approved in advance by the appropriate team (Landscape Maintenance, Common House, Maintenance/Workshop). 3. Any item stored in community spaces (e.g. common house, workshop building) will be presumed to be absolute community property, unless it is CLEARLY marked with owner´s name (and return date, if appropriate). 4. Items on loan to the community will be maintained and repaired by the community, and will be returned in good condition, normal wear and tear excepted. 5. All community property as well as items on loan may be used by any resident. If an item will be removed from where it is normally stored or used for more than one or two hours, a notice must be posted. Notification logs are posted in the common house kitchen, workshop, and garden storage area. ------------------------------------ On 19 Jan 2015 at 17:54, Tim Hunter wrote: From: Tim Hunter <cohousingl [at] gmail.com> Date sent: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:54:53 -0500 To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> Subject: [C-L]_ Handling donations Send reply to: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org > > Hi folks! > > Our community is struggling with how to handle donations of > furniture and equipment. How do others handle this issue in your > community? Can you recommend a best practice? > > We´re lucky to have some very generous members at Durham Coho. > These folks are able - nay, eager - to donate furniture and > equipment for use in our common rooms, and also money to buy such > things. When we were moving in we relied on donations to furnish our > common rooms. > > However, now we´re in and we´re looking at donations that > replace or augment our current furniture and equipment. As much as > we´d like to just say "Yes! We love donations!" we´re also > aware that the issue might be a bit more complicated that it first > appears. > > What if somebody wanted to donate a hot tub? A hot tub requires > ongoing utility costs and maintenance costs and may only appeal to a > subset of the community. Should we accept a donation that commits > the community to these costs? > Do donors have control over their donations? ("You have to put my > couch in the media room and move the one that´s there somewhere > else!") > Do members that can´t afford to make donations feel less valuable > to the community? > When should we turn down a donation? > Is a monetary donation different from a material donation? > > > There are many more of these kinds of questions, but I won´t > bother to list them all as I´m sure you can think of them > yourself. > > How should we decide when to accept a donation and when to turn it > down? > > Thanks for your advice! > > - > Tim Hunter > Durham Central Park Cohousing Community ------------------------------------ Dick Kohlhaas <rlkohl [at] earthlink.net> (719)633-8170 Board Member, Cohousing Association of the U.S. Resident of Colorado Springs (Colorado) Cohousing Community at Casa Verde Commons Completed March 2003. 34 units on 4 acres www.casaverde.us
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Handling donations Tim Hunter, January 19 2015
- Re: Handling donations Richard L Kohlhaas, January 19 2015
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Re: Handling donations Jessie Kome, January 19 2015
- Re: Handling donations Sharon Villines, January 20 2015
- Re: Handling donations Tim Hunter, January 20 2015
- Re: Handling donations Karen Carlson, January 19 2015
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