Dear Friends,
We ALWAYS track all of the time that anyone gives to us.....in working on 
committees, in writing grants, in writing publicity, helping with eventsetc 
etc...if it is not paid work it is considered an In-Kind Donation of time and 
talent.  We use these for our annual budget reports to show the true cost of doing 
business.

The State of NJ HPO ran a series of grant seminars in which they discussed 
this in-kind aspect.  They highly recommended that we do it, as it shows the 
REAL cost of doing business and also as it shows community support.  There is 
NOTHING unethical about it.

We value volunteer time at $7 / hour - around minimum wage.  We have had some 
cases where people with more "expert" talent have volunteered their time and 
talent - one case was a video expert who helped us prepare some CD's - another 
was a computer expert who helped us with some data base work.  In both cases, 
we evaluated their in-kind time and talent donation at $40/ hour and 
$30/hour...which was what it would have cost us to hire an expert to do what they did. 
 We keep a running list of these in-kind donations and it is a regular column 
in all our budgets.

All the best,
Maggie

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