ManagementFacilities&

Resident members can sign up for a weekly or monthly paid (tiered) membership, or a free basic one with only access to the space.

Available for

Individuals & Family

Individual Weekly pass: 4 hours

Family Weekly pass: 8 hours

Individual Monthly pass: 16 hours

Family Monthly pass +: 32 hours

Unlimited pass: Unlimited hours

X HOUR OF VOLUNTEERING

= X HOUR OF PROGRAMMING

Alternatively, members can volunteer and contribute time and work to the space for access to programing

Organization

Education, Training & Organization

Member organizations contribute to the space or its activities in some way. This includes, but is not limited to: working for the space, running programs, being part of the board, and organizing activities. Organizers that are actively involved in programming have individual resident membership.

Open

Finance&Legal

Philanthropist

Members contribute a fixed amount per month and have free access to services, activities and public events. Outreach will be done yearly to secure donations.

Open Membership provides open access to the space at no cost (not including ticketed programming or events).

4 types of memberships available: Resident, Organization, Open and Philanthropist

These memberships provide access to classes and programming. Everyone is welcome to access the space freely. The model is based on membership to create a sense of care and community for the space.

Strengths

• Distributed decision-making and responsibilities, and shared accountability.

• The organization is local and community-led.

• Collective stewardship of the program and space.

• Nonprofits are not subjected to taxes.

• Nonprofit status provides access to certain (although limited) funding streams that private entities cannot use.

Challenges

• Competition between nonprofit organizations for funding and involvement.

• Shortage of organizations for certain programs.

• Shortage of volunteers.

• Steady and sufficient flow of funding.

• Working with large, diverse groups makes achieving consensus challenging.

• Achieving goals and making decisions can be challenging with a decentralized structure.

Steering Group

A Steering Group is an entity formed at the beginning of the creation of an organization that aims to shape and bring the organization into being.

It is composed of interested community volunteers, some of whom are already part of other organizations themselves, who identify with the organization’s mission and wish to have a role in its creation. Members are identified based on their existing interests and commitment to Sunset Park.

Executives

The Executive Board is responsible for overseeing the management and operations of the organization. They are comprised of members from the Board of Directors that take on additional responsibilities.

Benefits

• Making and influencing changes at a larger scale in the community and issues

• More involved in the community, establishing partnerships

• Build relationships and leadership skills

• Be part of a change in the community

• Help address social inequality

• Being a part of a horizontal, participatory team and project

Responsibilities

• President

Responsible for running board meetings and for signing documents.

• Vice President

Responsible for some of the president’s duties as well as taking over for them when they are sick or unable to perform their duties.

• Treasurer Financial administration of grants, events, and other operational costs.

• Secretary Organizes meetings and communicates organizational updates to other members.

Committees

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is a body that implements and enacts decisions made by members. They represents the organization legally and in public.

Benefits

• Play an influential role in the organization

• Increased visibility in the community

• Shape the organization’s mission and goals

• Free Resident membership for them and their immediate family

• Establish more relationships with other community stakeholders, businesses and organizations

• Shape a more just neighborhood

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the continuation of the organization

• Processing voting results into agendas.

• Decision-making processes

• Attend meetings

• Oversee the budget

• Listening to community

A committee is a body of one or more persons that coordinates programatic activities with the board. They deal with specific organizational needs.

Benefits

• Shapes programming that serves the community

• Be directly involved with members of the public

• Free Resident membership for them and their immediate family

• Contribute in shaping a more just neighborhood

Responsibilities

• Digest and communicate information to the public

• Establish committee agenda

• Meeting outside of monthly meetings to execute tasks & responsibilities of specific agendas.

• Enact decisions made by the board

• Advance plans and programming

• Partner with community-based organizations to execute programming