Ch 5 Your Workforce Staff and Volunteers

Iria Vasquez-Paez

Blog Update

Ch 5 1/26/26

If I had a workforce, I’d pay staff and volunteers equally. That’s just the way someone socialist thinks after all. But before this happens, we need a board, and I am stumped on how to get one. Good managers do not stretch resources too thin. My anthropology class is late start as I was unable to get into research methods again which I royally failed this summer so I have to retake it this spring. I’m going to register the second I’m able to register this April. I’m trying to answer the questions of what positions would I have in my non profit and who I pay versus who I don’t but seeing as I altruistically want to pay everybody, like I said I have no idea what I’m doing.

I have all my fundraising ideas on my phone. I can experiment using them on Foothill College whose medical clinic is shuttered for the first time in 20 years as they have limited funds. I have yet to decide on my management structure itself anyhow. As a founding member, I don’t expect people to defer to me at all really but then again that’s because of my true nature, guess I’m off to the library to read about non profit management, and there is some kind of course in San Diego somewhere anyway. With what money? I have many people to go after this year. Managing a non profit requires doing reviews on your staff, something I have no idea about. So I guess I’m going to have to establish relationships with non profits I’m interested in that have offices in Silicon Valley.

 I need to create a staff handbook and our bylaws. Like I said, clueless, need a partner who knows more. I read on page 96 that the IRS does not like independent contractors. I should find the energy to volunteer for a non profit similar to the one in my head, because I need to gain experience. It’d be nice to have a job in a non-profit but I worry about my lack of desire to be around people. Is it a this time of year thing? Is it my CPTSD? I wouldn’t know. As it is, I’m switching therapists, and I have a new one until June at the very least, covered by my insurance. I need to talk to Sean McNamara who knows about the psychic stuff, but I need to be able to pay the man.