Summer Organizing School (SOS)
We’re raising $2,000 to create the SOS Facilitator Fund. All funds contributed will go to compensate organizers and activists who contribute their labor through skill-building training and workshops during the Summer Organizing School and to cover technology costs.
How will the fund work?
We will draw on networks of mutual aid and solidarity to compensate facilitators for their work in this collective organizing and political education, rather than mimic the exploitative, hierarchical, and alienating wage structure of the university. Fundraising and compensation will entail:
- Initial fundraising target of $2,000 to compensate SOS facilitators and organizers
- Payment of $150 per session to facilitators
- Nominal use of funds for SOS fixed costs like domain name purchases
- Equal distribution of any additional/remaining funds among facilitators
SOS will be transparent to activist-organizers, releasing both the total funds raised and the total number of activist-organizers who participated. Our goal in doing so is to allow participants to make decisions about compensation that balance individual and communal needs and priorities -- in the event that a facilitator declines compensation, those monies would remain in the fund and be distributed evenly between other activist-organizers. We will also use a small amount of funds to cover technology costs.
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