Session Overview
I'm trying to understand if/when I can hire someone to teach workshops and classes in a non-profit makerspace (community workshop). After passage of AB(5) in California we reclassified our regular class instructors as employees since part of our non-profit mission is education, etc., but the paperwork is frankly overwhelming. Now a potential instructor has reached out wondering if he can use our space for a master class in the woodshop for a group of students he's cultivated outside of our organization. Our insurance won't allow us to rent the space, tools, and machines, and we're trying to figure out how we can work with him without hiring him as an employee. If I had a clearer understanding of this I could expand many of our programs and class offerings to local veterans and seniors.
Nonprofit Overview
Our mission is to inspire our community to make with their hands what they may have once thought impossible. “If you can imagine it, you can make it.” We want everyone to have the opportunity to bring their ideas to life.
Fresno Ideaworks is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, public benefit organization, founded 10 years ago in an economically deprressed neighborhood in downtown Fresno, California. Our vision is to become the driving force of inspiration in our community by providing a Makerspace and a collaborative community of creative people to the Central Valley of California. We are dedicated to bringing innovation by providing our community with the resources to develop new skills through a unique hands-on teaching method through machine and tool usage; by fostering collaboration; and by providing educational components that empower our community to develop entrepreneurial skills.