Work to give community builders more job security. How to do this would obviously depend on the situation at hand, but in cases where community builders are on grants one could consider longer grant periods, longer exit grants and/or support and incentives for people to start legal entities which then employ them as community builders.
I wonder if this could be, more or less, a single organisation with the main purpose of providing stability for every single community builder at once. A rather small operations team could probably streamline things like contracts, payroll etc. As you mention, for things like mortgages, having what banks consider “normal employment” can be quite important. But the mental relief of not having to think about a bunch of things is a nice perk too, that employees at “normal” organisations take for granted.
As said I think this is an intersting idea, but I can see practical / legal issues with having a organization in one country having workers in multiple different countries. But regional orgs in places like the US and UK might be good. Also, even though one might not be able to be technically hired, having a joint back office for many things just seems good.
Yeah I might be missing some important considerations here but if community organizers leave the role because being a contractor is unstable and hard to get a mortgage with then it seems like a good idea to give them the option to instead be hired as employees of a new or existing organization.
I wonder if this could be, more or less, a single organisation with the main purpose of providing stability for every single community builder at once. A rather small operations team could probably streamline things like contracts, payroll etc. As you mention, for things like mortgages, having what banks consider “normal employment” can be quite important. But the mental relief of not having to think about a bunch of things is a nice perk too, that employees at “normal” organisations take for granted.
As said I think this is an intersting idea, but I can see practical / legal issues with having a organization in one country having workers in multiple different countries. But regional orgs in places like the US and UK might be good. Also, even though one might not be able to be technically hired, having a joint back office for many things just seems good.
Yeah I might be missing some important considerations here but if community organizers leave the role because being a contractor is unstable and hard to get a mortgage with then it seems like a good idea to give them the option to instead be hired as employees of a new or existing organization.
I think all have the option, but that it might be hard. So providing support to do this might be relevant.