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Issues in Membership Structure |
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Written by Jonnie Pekelny
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Thursday, 26 October 2006 |
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These are some of the things to consider when deciding upon membership structure for a group. The text below is a quote from Jonnie Pekelny from an email posted to the
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- Do you have different levels of membership (e.g. full member and associate member)? If so, what are the different tiers and what privileges/limitations/implications do they involve?
- Is membership, or the different levels of membership, linked to equity investment in the project? Or to the level at which people have committed themselves to the group? Or both? If both, how does that work? In our case, we are just forming our LLC, so most of the participants, even the most solid, are NOT equity members yet. Yet they pay dues... It's a bit confusing.
- How is your dues / entry fee structure organized? In our group we ran into an issue with wanting to be as fair as possible to various family configurations and income levels, without bogging ourselves down in overly complex plutocracy. The main ideas seem to be to pay by household, or pay by adult member, or have some kind of sliding or varied scale, but a relatively simple one. How does your community do it?
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 January 2007 )
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