Burning Questions or brain dumps for Risks......

Is this any Jeder risk? For example, would it be considered a risk if @kerry63 and I started using co-budget and wanted to raise funds for the marketing of an Unconference? Would that be a double risk? i.e. the event and the asking of members support?

Hey @deebrooks - sorry I missed this one- I will ask the question at tonight's Jedi but I would not consider it a risk.... the only potential risk for me is if we planned, advertised etc and no one registered (or only a small amount of people registered) and the event had to be cancelled/postponed- this could be a risk to our reputation.

Hey @deebrooks - there was Lyn and I at the Jedi tonight so we decided not to proceed. I will raise the question again next month.

There could be some financial risk around cancellations

Would this not be something that is considered by the individual member during the design and calling of the gathering, thus not a risk to the organisation but rather an individual risk to each of the members that are designing the event? I am presuming that co-budget is from your own individual buckets and not the admin bucket (I may have mis-interpreted this).

Hi Jason, sorry I missed last night I totally forgot. Please send me a txt anytime I'm usually around

Hi Everyone, a question was raised from the $Jedi yesterday regarding individual invoices that do not get paid by the supplier. Some examples of this might include we facilitate a workshop and the organisation does not pay the invoice or a Plan/Self Managed Participant refuses to pay an invoice. This has been identified as a personal risk to the collective member rather than the organisation- any ideas of how we could manage this and who should manage this risk?

I would like to add that if a number of invoices don't get paid, this could potentially put additional stress/worry on the individual member resulting in them potentially leaving/exiting Jeder- how could we support the collective member to not leave but also manage their invoices/get paid for the work they do.
I know this may be better suited to the $Jedi, but its worth considering as its playing on my mind and I think its a risk to Jeder (i.e. members leaving due to not receiving payment for work they have performed and should be paid for).

This is a tricky one. At the moment we send reminders and statements and usually things get paid, but not always. We could use a debt collections service. They usually wrtie a letter of demand and then take a % of the recovered debt. for me it would be the individual member's choice about the course of action they take, and we need to get better at sending out regular statements to members around outstanding debts. It is also not a good look to go into an audit with a lot of aged debts.

We have recenlty had a related but different issue. There was a member who left some time ago and there was an expense that they had incurred for a venue hire. They venue had sent multiple invoices and reminders, but of course the Jeder member was no longer receiving Jeder emails. The venue then got in touch with admin advising potential legal action around non payment. This bill was then paid from admin, Who should bear these kind of costs, and who can OK an expense like this being paid for by admin?