Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: "sponsorship" of items

[Lynn Nadeau (welcome]

At RoseWind, we wouldn't do something just BECAUSE someone would pay for 
it. But there are things we want to do, that don't have funding. If 
someone wanted to offer that funding, we would take it. Example: in 
building our common house, we knew that it would be nice to have some 
pattern in the great-room (dining room) floor, that having 1000 square 
feet of plain oak flooring would add to the cavernous feel we wanted to 
mitigate. But when we got to budgeting, plain flooring was all we could 
afford. I offered to use part of an inheritance I had just gotten to pay 
the difference. So we all got the lovely parquetry inlays in the center 
of our floor, and the budget was not impacted. I wouldn't have just given 
that sum of money to the general building fund. The key to having it work 
was that floor patterning had been already agreed upon as desireable. And 
for me, the parquet flooring was something especially pleasing to me, 
that motivated me to fund it. 

To insist that projects had to be done "in order", even if funded by 
donation, would probably end up with less donated, and less done. 

Similarly, with volunteerism, you get some things done -- because someone 
has a passion for it -- that may be less of a priority to others. But you 
take what you get and be glad!



Lynn Nadeau, RoseWind Cohousing
Port Townsend Washington (Victorian seaport, music, art, nature)
http://www.rosewind.org
http://www.ptguide.com
http://www.ptforpeace.info (very active peace movement here- see our 
photo)
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