Sharing Resources (was 'Facilitator as space-invader!')

[douglas germann]

Lisa--


On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 13:15 -0800, Lisa Heft wrote:

> 
> This also goes under the title of ‘Funding Community Work’ – 
> 
>  
> 
> I never offer my work for free and I never offer free scholarships to
> my workshops – but instead, everybody pays what they can.
> 
>  
> 
> For my clients – we have a conversation about possible costs, then
> every client gets to set their own fee for my services, according to
> their financial abilities.  The big guys pay the big bucks, the other
> guys pay the most that they can given their own particular financial
> circumstances.
> 
>  
> 
> For my workshops – there are suggested levels of payment, including a
> ‘pay your own price’ where participants get to set their own level of
> fee for registration.  Every price is right – anything over zero.  So
> everybody can afford the workshop. 
> 


> In these ways, it all evens out – those who can pay more are putting
> money into the ‘pool’ to help cover those with less resources.
> 
>  
> 
> It always works.

One might say, Whatever you can afford to pay is the right amount!

I am really becoming enamored of this way of "pricing."

Lisa, do you have any unusual sources of funding you have seen in
Community work?

			:- Doug.

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