Ask Community Resource Exchange, Sustainable Economy Laws Center, and MVVN for potential leads.
Project Goals
We’re able to pay staff members equitably!
We have the resources and system needed to do this sustainably
Requirements
Implementation, not just research and design
Alignment with our principles
Work Products
Whether directly created or sourced from other organizations/resources.
Time tracking, payroll, and accounting system
Legal agreements
Insurance
Training
Leads for Consultants Future Incubator
MVVN
Peer Defense Project
Sustainable Economies Law Center
Community Resource Exchange Vega Mala Consulting
Peer Defense Project
The Peer Defense Project Proposal. They’ve also shared that they outsource HR (Gusto), Accounting (Jitasa), and Legal Compliance (Lawyer’s Alliance).
Search “Survey of Financial Experience” in our Shared Google Drive (Keep Private)
Questions we’re currently asking:
What’s your age? What are things about your specific situation that are relevant to an understanding of your financial situation?
What is your current financial situation?
current income, current net worth, access to resources
expenses
How sustainable is your current financial situation? What’s your definition of sustainable? Would you say you have excess, you’re thriving, you’re just making it, or you’re struggling?
What are your philosophies around money?
What do you know about money? What do you need to learn?
How does money influence where you decide to invest your time?
We’re implementing paid staff members at Youth Power Coalition: what ideas do you have about how we do this?
What else do you want to share that you haven’t had an opportunity to share yet?
What, if anything, should we change about these questions?
Share briefly how you intend to use this small grant:*
(A simple bullet list will suffice.) Our question is “How might we make organizing for youth-led collective impact financially accessible?” We’re requesting this grant to put the first part of our support for financial accessibility into place! We will use the grant to hire consultants to guide us through implementing an equitable compensation policy. The project includes: interviewing other youth-led organizations to glean lessons from how they’ve implemented consultation, finalizing compensation policy, purchasing HR software, creating HR employment documents, training organizers on budgeting, redistribution, finances, racialized capitalism, and documentation of the process so we can share it with the wider community and have a base for improving on it in future.
If working with a consultant, please share their contact information: We will be working with MEVVN consulting and Peer Defense Project