Living in a shared space means everyone contributes to keeping it clean and functional, this is a basic expectation of participation in the residency, not a service provided by the program. All residents are expected to contribute a minimum of 5 hours per month toward routine shared responsibilities as a condition of participation.
The Shared Effort Initiative exists to recognize and compensate effort above and beyond that baseline--larger projects, ongoing maintenance, community programming, and other contributions that go beyond what anyone living in a shared space would simply be expected to do. These additional hours may be credited toward your monthly program contribution at $15/hour.
Tasks eligible for Shared Effort Initiative credit are subject to pre-approval by the Resident Advisor, must go beyond routine day-to-day upkeep, and must be logged on the shared property spreadsheet. Examples of credit-eligible tasks include:
- Assisting with nonprofit-maintained livestock (chickens) and community plants and gardens
- Helping with simple home repairs like drywall patching, wood refinish, and painting, with guidance from other nonprofit members
- Helping update the house wiki (internal guide for the residents on how to use the facilities)
- Running or helping facilitate workshops and events in the available communal space like community meals, arts meet ups like crafting and writing workshops and flow jams, game nights, movie viewings, or whatever sparks your artistic interest
- Other community engagement and outreach
- Facilitating weekly trash removal
- Seasonal snow and leaf removal
- Seasonal basement water removal
- Running the dishwasher and putting away dishes
- Putting away and restocking communal supplies like TP and laundry soap
- General cleaning and chores
Residents may reduce their monthly donation by contributing more than 5 hours per month.
- For the current program year, additional hours are given residency credit at a rate of $15/hour.
- Residents who do not log at least 5 hours in a month will see those hours as an additional charge at the same rate as the current credit rate.
- Credits and charges will be reflected on the residents' program balance by the 5th of the month following their occurrence.
