Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Hardship funds/resources

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

We have a good neighbor fund. Three people in the community manage it and
it is confidential.
I am pretty sure it is kept as part of our meals funds (and is mostly, but
not only, used to pay for meals).
Our meals fund is kept separate from our other cohousing fund.

People give as they feel called, there are occasionally notices that it is
running low, and some of us give monthly.
(For example, I have $5 donated from my meals account each month.)

I assume they track what is meals and what is good neighbor, but I don't
know of any tracking done beyond that.
What would be the purpose of tracking?

-Liz
(The Rev. Dr.) Elizabeth Mae Magill
Pastor, Ashburnham Community Church
Minister to the Affiliates, Ecclesia Ministries
www.elizabethmaemagill.com
508-450-0431


On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 3:50 PM Ruby Reay <rurubux [at] hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am curious how communities deal with financial hardship experienced by
> their residents, specifically, do any of you have a fund that is used for
> such things, and if so, how to do approach the accounting of such a fund. I
> am thinking non-profits can't do such things, so there might be
> alternatives. I am aware that religious organizations (churches) have
> hardship funds/resources and have a means of accounting for them.
>
> At any rate, curious to hear what others are doing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ruby Reay
> Phoenix Commons
> Oakland, CA
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