I’m interested to hear from people whose organizations made transitions from:
volunteer-centric to staff-centric
all-donation to grant-(or retail-)funded
consensus-run to exclusive/majoritarian board (or something else)
In particular what were peoples’ objections to the transition? What problems or pitfalls were there? Did the shop lose its independence? What net-negatives were there (even if overwhelmingly outweighed by all the positives?)
Please feel free to reply to my personal email here if there’s something you don’t want to put on blast:
thomas.unavailable@gmail.com
My interest is not regarding articles of incorporation or how to fill out 501c3 paperwork. (there are threads on those topics in TheThinkTank archives http://lists.bikecollectives.org/pipermail/thethinktank-bikecollectives.org/ if anyone is curious). Your testimonial is likely more relevant if your organization's incorporation is far in the past relative to its transition(s).
Thank you all so much for the work you do in your own communities and for the work you do in this community of ours.
Thomas Butler
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Austin’s Yellow Bike Project