Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Should individual "sponsorship" be allowed of community property?

[Kevin Kleinfelter (pilot-pda]

Consider the same question in different contexts:

1. My Christmas wish list(Community size = 1)
2. My family's home improvement project list
3. My church/temple/mosque project list
4. National charity's project list

For 1: I should reject a gift I didn't get the thing I wanted most?
For 2: So if my brother visits and rakes my yard (really happened -- 
hooray!) I should ask him to stop?
For 3: The board of directors is going to give my donation back?
For 4: The Nature Conservancy is going to say, "We really wanted this other 
wild land more, so please take yours back?"

The only reason I can imagine for giving a gift back is if it were in 
conflict with the values of the community. (e.g. My church would certainly 
reject a gift of $1,000,000 that was obtained via selling illegal drugs.)

If there is expensive, ongoing maintennance, it would be fair to ask the 
donor to line up ongoing financial support.

All are just my opinions...


-----Original Message-----
From: cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org
[mailto:cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org]On Behalf Of Diane Simpson
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 3:32 PM
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: [C-L]_Should individual "sponsorship" be allowed of community
property?



Hi everyone,
We recently went through Value Engineering and here is a question from our
group that came out of that process. (In which we found out we could not
afford everything that we wanted) You can reply to me or to the list,
however you prefer. Thanks,

Diane Simpson, JP Cohousing in Boston Mass.
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Should anyone be 'allowed' to just pick an item and sponsor it?  For
example, what if there was a person who wanted to just pay to put the 
walkways in.  And what if that money comes in earmarked for walkways  but
the soundproofing is still not funded.  Should we just accept the gift? Or
make some sort of policy that says we will accept gifts but only to fund
the items in the VE priority order. (But what if a person can't afford to
pay for soundproofing but is happy to fund the
fireplace....see the problem?) What have other groups done?

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D I A N E   S I M P S O N
COHO [at] THEWORLD.COM
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