Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Cohousing --->funding other projects with donations

[Rob Sandelin (robsan]

>What if each coho group would budget say, $10,000 out of it's construction
>fund to put in a fund that would be granted to a neighborhood somewhere?  If
>10-15 groups sent $10K each, that would be enough to purchase a boarded-up
>building and some renovation.....

  I can't even get Sharingwood to fund membership in the FIC, I could 
not imagine my group ever agreeing to give 10 grand to some other 
neighborhood project in some city somewhere.  In that 10 grand is a 
small part of a multimillion dollar project is not the point.  Getting 
agreement from everybody in the group, at the stage of mortgage 
financing, to agree to donate $350 to some other development project, 
might be kind of a hard sell.  Out of the 33 adults at Sharingwood I am 
the only one who puts ANY energy into community networking.  I might do 
this, I doubt any of my neighbors would.

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood