Re: associate members
From: Diana Carroll (dianaecarrollgmail.com)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 07:42:10 -0700 (PDT)
Alan, it sounds like maybe you are thinking of a specific situation in your
community. Maybe if you give a few extra details people with associate
programs might be able to offer ideas.

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:41 AM Diana Carroll <dianaecarroll [at] gmail.com>
wrote:

> No, by definition, affiliates are non-residents.  Residents automatically
> get full membership.  Affiliate membership has limitations, like they can
> come to meetings and participate in discussion, but if something comes to a
> vote, they don't get to vote.
>
> Like Liz said, we do not try to decide who is a resident. That's up to the
> household. In fact, once a year we survey -- who do you consider part of
> your household for the purposes of membership? We don't consider it our job
> to verify or second guess. No one really cares -- you are who you say you
> are.
>
> As far as I know, we have never had the situation of a romantic
> relationship where the partner was an affiliate. Doesn't mean we wouldn't
> do it, but it just hasn't been a thing. We've had non-romantic family
> related memberships (moms are popular :D ), but I think, if memory serves,
> that those family members lived in Camelot, our "sister" community who
> shares our land, so that's a different situation.
>
> Diana
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:26 AM Alan O'Hashi <adoecos [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Diana et al. - Thanks for your responses. Do Affilliates / Associates
>> live in your community or do they live elsewhere and participate in your
>> community?
>>
>>
>> I'm also interested in learning how a community decides that an
>> occasional guest such as a boyfriend or girlfriend who stays overnight
>> regularly becomes a resident.
>>
>>
>> Are your associate / affiliate membership categories tied to household
>> romantic relationship status (do personfriends ever join as associates /
>> affiliates to 'test drive' community life)
>>
>>
>> Thx
>>
>> Alan O.
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 01:52:42 AM MDT, Diana Carroll <
>> dianaecarroll [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>

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