Awesummit2014:IHAS

Attendees: Deana (Baltimore), Emily (Ottawa), Nikki (Seattle), Dionne (Atlanta), Kara (Boston), Asad (Kingston), Joel (Austin), Christina (NY)

What is IHAS?

• A nice suit you can put on, not a separate business person.
• Scaffolding
• Serving lowest common denominator

Fiscal Sponsorship

• Right now lots of chapters need it just to get free beer etc.
• Community foundations have guidelines with what they'll typically fund but they'll tell you no.
• You'd have to define in the governance what kinds of projects you want.

* Maybe chapters could submit grants? * There are nonprofits that are set up just to do fiscal agencies.

• You have to state that it's a fiscal agent--define types of grants you're willing to make.

* Hard to cut checks to people outside of the state. Accounting liability. You HAVE to have an audit and that's expensive. * Deana: It's kind of a nightmare. Lots of IRS stuff around giving.

Succession

• Create a task of the things you normally do?
• Should IHAS just be the thing that runs the Summit?

Constraints

• Nobody works on it full-time.

• Rotating chairs.

• What if all the chapters donate one of their monthly grants to IHAS?

* Could go towards a metagrant for revitalizing the city? * Could be used for general funds for the chapters. * Finding people to start chapters in target cities and bring them to the Summit?

IHAS Responsibilities

• Website - paying maintenance costs, improving the website
• Documentation -
• Communication -
• Summit

Projects

• Figuring out some kind of shared resources
• Call-to-action video: trustee, chapter, application