Good place to start: https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/So_You_Want_to_Teach_A_Class
Includes links to a walkthrough of entering necessary info into calendar for class creation.
Perhaps this has already been covered, and if so, feel free to ignore me.
Because these are “for the committee”, it would not be out of line to ask the committee chair to pay for the board materials, if new materials are acquired. Of course, the chair can always say no, but if this is something that will benefit the committee, chairs usually say yes, and the instructor (or another party) does not have to be out of pocket for a committee tool. This also eliminates the need for “waiting for honorarium” to get things paid for.
As stated elsewhere before: the honorarium is a “thank you” to our volunteers for teaching classes. The money is YOURS, and you may do with it as you wish.
Although donating back to DMS with the instructor portion of honorarium is lovely, I think “waiting for honorarium to buy materials/tool/whathaveyou” often creates inappropriate expectations of the honoraria.
I may be reading more into this than is there is if so I apologize, but I at no time asked or expected for her to pay out of her honorarium. That was an unsolicited comment she made in Talk that I was not planning on taking her up on. Just want to make my motives clear so people are not making assumptions. I know from my month here this honorarium thing is a very contentious subject.
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It’s all good, friend.
Whether you take such an offer or not is purely between you and the offerer.
Likewise, if the offer is made is purely between those 2 parties.
I simply wanted to clarify that, while [royal you] may use [royal your] honorarium any way [royal you] see fit, including reimbursing someone for hauling/shaping materials, [royal we] should steer clear of placing the honorarium unnecessarily in the middle of that. Instead [royal we] can ask the committee chair to reimburse for useful things, and often be met with “You betcha”. Then the reimbursement can come directly from the accountant’s office, and honoraria do not need to enter into it. Instructors may keep part or donate all to committee while letting the committee do what the committee does in terms of furnishing tools and equipment conducive people making things using the skills fostered within that committee. This lifts a substantial burden off [royal us] instructors to worry about whether we’ll get honorarium, what taxes will be taken out before we can get it re-donated, etc.
Really not a big deal. I just think some misinformation is floating around about honorariums, what they are, how they should be used, etc…
from here
Collin, what you are saying is completely True. At no time did you suggest or request payment in any way, and at no time did I discuss with you reimbursement for materials using my honorarium (if I qualify for one).
You have been a wonderfully giving and considerate DMS member; the first to offer to source the board material and cut the ware boards needed. Another kind and generous member beat you to it :)))))
The discussion of reimbursement of the cost of materials out of my DMS honorarium came from my own head and out of my own mouth and was my own suggestion-
I wanted to reassure whomever volunteered to help, that I am incredibly grateful for their time, effort, and labor. I didn’t want them to be out the money too. And I would be happy to pay them back out of my honorarium or next contract job, whichever came first :)))
It’s all worked out better than I ever could have hoped! DMS members responded to my Talk call for help immed! I so appreciate that!
I can’t wait to go to DMS and see the new ceramic ware boards! And then list my first class!
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Yea, wood ware boards!
and if you donate the honorarium back to the committee when you schedule the class, you won’t incur a tax burden for that as income.
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DT! The Masonite ware boards are completely Fabulous!!! Thank you so much!
I immediately put them in the teachers and special supplies cabinet in ceramics :))
I can’t wait to list, offer, and teach my first ceramics class at DMS! With the ware boards that you made, I Am Ready!
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Stacked carefully in the Ceramic’s cabinet :)))
Collin- When will you be at the space next? I have some material that I’ve used for ceramics flat building forms in the past that have worked well. Let me know and I’ll meet you up there if at all possible. Thanks for doing this!
@Monikat Are the forms I made still working ok?
Hey Paul these were completed by another maker at the space before I had time to do them. The material is no longer needed.
CR
Yes the forms are working well and Collin is correct the ware boards needed have been completed. Thank you!
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