Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: associate members

[Diana Carroll (dianaecarroll]

Adding on to what Liz said about Mosaic’s affiliates.

Alan asked how we decide when someone has crossed from visitor to
affiliate. Our policy (after lots of discussion) is that an affiliate is
proposed by two “sponsors”. So it’s an active decision by the potential
affiliate and their sponsors. Also while that transition sometimes is as
you describe— they hang around for awhile and then find they want to.be
more involved — in fact the majority of our affiliates are people who used
to live here, and/or residents of our “sister” cohousing group with whom we
share land.

Here’s the actual policy.
https://www.mosaic-commons.org/affiliates

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:25 PM Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com>
wrote:

> In terms of people who sometimes live in the community, it is up to
> the owner to decide who is a member of their household. So if they say
> someone is part of their household and are members then they are
> members.
>
> For people who don't live here, we have a category called "affiliates"
> for people who want to have the privileges and responsibilities of
> membership. They pay 5% of our average dues (we have a sliding scale)
> and help with work and with the fun.
>
> We have called this thing associates, and then we changed it to friend
> and now it is affiliate. Calling it a "friend" was a mistake, some
> people thought that everyone who was their friend should be made
> one---really, we want everyone to feel free to invite friends anytime.
> Affiliate status costs money and has a [slight] commitment.
>
> Liz at Mosaic commons, Berlin, MA.
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 8:24 PM Alan O'Hashi via Cohousing-L
> <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> >
> > Cohousers - There was banter about Associate Members. I gather the
> members are not owners/residents but live off campus. Do boy friends or
> girl friends who stay over for one or a few nights on a regular basis
> counted as Associate members? How does your community decide when an
> occasional visitor becomes a resident?
> >
> >
> > Thx
> >
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