RE: Paid Staff

**G*@mobot.org**

Stacie,

Your local United Way chapter can be enormously helpful in answering all
your questions and setting up this position.  Most have a management
assistance center that will help any non-profit entity regardless if you are
a UW agency or not.  Gwenne

-----Original Message-----
From: Chun, Stacie [S*@oaklandnet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 1:33 PM
To: 'community_garden@mallorn.com'
Subject: [cg] Paid Staff

Our community garden has been awarded a small foundation grant ($8K) to hire
a program coordinator. We might be able to get a little more from another
grant to bring the total available up to about $18K.

We haven't had paid staff for the gardens in the current board's memory and
aren't sure how to get started-- what taxes, insurance are required? Can we
pay on consultant or stipend basis? Are we required to pay Medicare,
unemployment insurance, etc. on such a small sum?

Our funder doesn't want to advise us on set-up, and the local non-profit
resource center has advised us to find an employment lawyer.

Does anyone have experience with paying a person out of a tiny budget? We
are in California, so any experience in our state would be especially
helpful. Do we really need to hire a lawyer for this?

Stacie Chun
Hayward Community Gardens

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