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The Bike Kitchen is an all-volunteer grass roots organization.  In addition to all of the bike repair tasks that are our major focus, volunteers handle the various administrative tasks that arise, such as ordering supplies, holding meetings, counting the money, managing the email stream, interacting with entities like the IRS, wrangling patron information, keeping a staff calendar, etc.  Over the years, some administrative structures have begun forming.  We've arrived at a time when it makes sense to formalize these structures to help make them more transparent and easier to get involved with. Let's start by giving the structures a name: clusters. Clusters are groups of concentrated volunteer energy that focus on certain tasks.
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In addition to all of the bike repair tasks that are our major focus, volunteers handle the various administrative tasks that arise such as ordering supplies, holding meetings, counting the money, managing the email stream, interacting with the IRS, wrangling patron information, keeping a staff calendar, etc.  Over the years the following administrative clusters have formed:
  
* [[Volunteer Coordination Cluster]]
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* [[Education Cluster]]
 
* [[Financial Cluster]]
 
* [[Financial Cluster]]
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* [[Information Technology Cluster]]
 
* [[Operations Cluster]]
 
* [[Operations Cluster]]
* [[Information Technology Cluster]]
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* [[Volunteer_Coordination_Cluster|Volunteer Cluster]]
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We should have one or two people leading each of these clusters, known as "Cluster Coordinators".  These Coordinators are responsible for making sure their cluster's responsibilities get done, but not necessarily for doing all the tasks themselves -- they are free to, and should, delegate.

Latest revision as of 18:08, 14 February 2011

In addition to all of the bike repair tasks that are our major focus, volunteers handle the various administrative tasks that arise such as ordering supplies, holding meetings, counting the money, managing the email stream, interacting with the IRS, wrangling patron information, keeping a staff calendar, etc. Over the years the following administrative clusters have formed:

We should have one or two people leading each of these clusters, known as "Cluster Coordinators". These Coordinators are responsible for making sure their cluster's responsibilities get done, but not necessarily for doing all the tasks themselves -- they are free to, and should, delegate.