Julia Contract

Note: this contract is for educational purposes only; it has never been completed in real life. - MJ, 8/11

Introduction and Intent

This Resource Development Contract, hereinafter Contract, is intended to clarify the terms and facilitate progress on the tasks defined herein. This Contract is intended to be made in good faith for the protection and benefit of both parties. Both parties are private individuals in authority and of age to sign this contract. Given OSE's drive for innovation and transformation, this contract is intended to clarify as many points as possible that may arise from this condition. This contract is further intended to clarify operating procedures and accountability between the parties.

Identification of Parties

This is a contract made on _____________ between the Executive Director of Open Source Ecology (an unincorporated organization under the fiscal sponsorship of Terra Foundation) represented by Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D., ____________________(address), hereinafter ED, and Resource Developer of Open Source Ecology, Julia Valentine ____________ (address), hereinafter RD.

Duration

This contract shall be in effect for a period of 6 months (April 1, 2011 - October 1, 2011), and may be renewed by a continuation contract agreed upon in writing by both parties.

Terms

The roles for the respective parties are:

1. RD shall provide Resource Development services to OSE.
2. ED agrees to allocate payment for RD's services as in the next point.
3. RD's Pay Structure shall be 10% of money raised on a yearly basis, until a base level of $65k per year. This quantity shall consist of only the monies that comes in from private donors, Foundations, Corporations, Grants, Awards, or any other sources that arise as a result of the RD's efforts, but not those resources that come in from other sources (such as money raised by others who are not working as agents of the RD, money from Kickstarter, etc.)
4. RD functions as Project Manager for the nonprofit resource development team, with the required duty of keeping a Resource Development Log on her activities.
5. RD shall work as an independent contractor.
6. RD shall contribute to developing an Organizational Structure for Fundraising by providing a Fiscal Sponsorship arrangement with a dedicated OSE bank account.
7. Funding shall be allocated to the technical development of the GVCS, to pay the RD, and to cover any necessary overhead costs. In all cases possible, overhead costs shall be covered via in-kind and other donations.
8. RD shall secure office supplies and material via in-kind contributions.
9. RD shall pursue in-kind contributions for materials, supplies, equipment, and any other items necessary for the development of the GVCS.
10. ED shall make allocation decisions for technical project development and for any non-fixed costs associated with the RD's activities.
11. ED shall be the sole signatory on the OSE bank account, until another suitable signatory is approved by the ED.
12. Decisions for OSE shall be made by ED. The Advisory Board shall assist the ED in decision-making.
13. RD shall serve as a member of the Advisory Board, and in particular, the Resource Development Advisory Board.
14. ED shall approve all allocation suggestions from the RD, such as travel expenses.
15. To develop the Donor Package shall be completed by May 1, 2011.
16. Marketing materials shall be done with the assistance of the current OSE Media Director, with Process- portfolio to Media Director, team meeting with designer, design done, checked by Media Director
17. RD may recruit any other agents to act on her behalf, and money raised by these agents will be counted
18. Participate in a weekly Resource Development meeting, unless otherwise agreed upon.
19. RD shall produce an introductory blog with her video, and agrees to disclose this contract to
20. RD and ED shall use CiviCRM for managing all contact relationships. All contacts shall remain as the exclusive property of OSE, for use consistent with the distributive economic goals of OSE. RD and ED agree to record all contacts and conversations in CiviCRM for use by any other OSE organizers. This database shall be access-restricted. ED shall moderate all access restrictions. To protect the identity of individuals in the database, ED and RD agree not to disclose any private information to third parties. Any third party interested in accessing the content may do so at a cost of US$1 billion payable to OSE.
21. We're interested in expansion of resource development operations to other states. To facilitate this, RD agrees to document the process as much as possible on the Resource Development Log. This is useful for 2 reasons: (1) once a project is done, the implementor wants to move forward instead of going back to documentation; (2) nuances of the challenges, though important during development, are forgotten later on.
22. RD moderates technical forum on resource development, and this forum shall be by invitation only, wiki notes as locked pages, and access-restricted CiviCRM database
23. Resource Database for OSE - should be as open and accessible as possible to OSE organizers and collaborators. ED shall make decisions regarding access rights.
24. ED shall employ NVC skills he will be learning with Judith Katz, in all communications with RD and her team. For each transgression he will pay the RD $20, a compliment either about her intellect or good nature, and offer up a real heartfelt apology to RD for having to endure unkind speech.

The terms of this contract are intended to be several. Failure to meet one term does not mean that the contract is void, but instead, best efforts shall be made to fulfill the other points.