[Noisebridge-discuss] membership dues via employer matching funds?

[Christie Dudley]

Another interesting thing... often employers will match, or completely pay
for dues in professional organizations.  Would someone be able to logically
make that argument?

Christie
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Christoph Maier <
cm.hardware.software.elsewhere at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 14:03 -0700, Mitch Altman wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> >
> > Someone just emailed with a question that I thought could use group
> > input.
> >
> >
> > The company they work for offers matching donations to non-profit
> > groups that they (the employee) donates to.  This person was wondering
> > if the matching funds could be counted towards membership dues.  I was
> > thinking that this would be fine, but wanted to ask others' opinions,
> > rather than make a unilateral decision (as Treasurer of Noisebridge).
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Mitch.
>
> I'm not a member, but I would think that having an employer makes the
> difference between a starving hacker and a member paying full dues.
> Some employers take care of that difference themselves, it seems.
>
> Christoph
>
>
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