Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cash gifts to community?

[Diana Carroll (dianaecarroll]

Sorry, usually I remember.

I’m in Mosaic Commons in Central MA.

No go on putting it in a signature block. This is the email I use for
everything in my life of which C-L constitutes maybe 1%. Most of the people
I communicate with either already know where I live, or don’t care/don’t
need to know.

Diana

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 8:04 AM Ann Zabaldo <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hello everyone — Happy New Year to all —
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> Just a little request that people remember to include your community in
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> Diana, I don’t know where you are from but I would sure like to know!  :-)
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> Putting your community’s name in your signature block would be very
> helpful.  I know some folks use the Subject line or the 1st line of their
> post.  Signature block would be more  uniform but it’s helpful wherever you
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> Thanks!
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> Best --
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> Ann Zabaldo
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> Takoma Village Cohousing
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> Washington, DC
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> Member, Board of Directors
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> Mid Atlantic Cohousing
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> Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
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> Falls Church, VA
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> 202.546.4654
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> One minute you’re young and fun.  And the next, you’re turning down the
> stereo in your car to see better.  www.bizwaremagic.com
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> NOTE: I am switching back to: zabaldo [at] earthlink.net.  Many apologies!
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> > On Dec 29, 2020, at 1:11 PM, Diana Carroll <dianaecarroll [at] gmail.com>
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> > Are you looking for technical accounting advice or policy advice? From a
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> > technical perspective, it depends on how you have your books set up. If I
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> > were implementing this, I would create two long term liability accounts
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> > (with appropriate names like "restricted use fund" and "unrestricted use
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> > fund". When depositing the checks, assign to the appropriate liability
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> > account. (This is how we have our reserve funds set up.)
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> > Can't offer anything with regard to how to policies.
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> > Diana
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> > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:17 PM Lyn Deardorff <lynpeachtree [at] 
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> >> Hello all,
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> >> Wondering how you all have handled accounting and guidelines for using
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> >> cash gifts to the community.  We have received two significant ones in
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> >> last two years - one restricted and one unrestricted.  We would like to
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> >> establish guidelines for use for this one and future unrestricted gifts.
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> >> Isn't this a nice problem to have?  Please send any suggestions, past or
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> >> best practices you have.
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> >> Thanks!  And Happy New Year!
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> >> Lyn Deardorff
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> >> Sand River Co-Housing
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> >> Santa Fe, New Mexico
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> >> lynpeachtree [at] hotmail.com
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