[nagdu] about insentives

[Laurie Mehta]

By nature, the guide dog programs are non-profits with dedicated budgets.  It seems to me that if a program wanted to offer insentives for something like filling out health info (which, imho, a supporter of the program ought to want to do willingly), the cost of these insentives would need to be kept as low as possible.  If the insentive was something that the program could donate from its own budget, instead of being something that had to be bought from somewhere else, the cost would be the most reasonable.  
Getting into the business of purchasing gift certificates or other stuff to hand out to get people to fill out forms just seems like a suspect business decision to me.  /smile/ 
-Laurie
--- On Mon, 5/18/09, Angie Matney <angie.matney at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Angie Matney <angie.matney at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] about insentives
> To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 8:25 PM
> Hi Julie,
> Of
>  Course they don't. My school does not. I'm just saying
> that, in my opinion
> (and I emphasize that this is my opinion), offering a
> different kind of
> incentive would probably be better. 
> 
> Angie
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org
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> On Behalf
> Of JULIE PHILLIPSON
> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 5:12 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide
> Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] about insentives
> 
> the school doesn't have to offer anything at all.
> 
> Julie Phillipson
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Angie Matney" <angie.matney at gmail.com>
> To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide
> Dog Users'" 
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 11:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] about insentives
> 
> 
> > Hi Julie,
> >
> > In my mind, incentives for filling out non-required
> forms and late fees on
> > the rent are two entirely different things. You have
> to pay your rent
> > anyway. The landlord's extra fee is kind of like a
> punishment if you don't
> > pay it near the beginning of the month. The vet
> reports are nnot required,
> > but the school really wants the information. I just
> don't think a school's
> > services to its grads should depend on who does or
> does not fill out a
> > non-required form. Again, this is JMO.
> >
> > Angie
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org
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> On Behalf
> > Of JULIE PHILLIPSON
> > Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 10:05 AM
> > To: NAGDU
> > Subject: [nagdu] about insentives
> >
> > There was a question of a guide dog school offering an
> incentive to fill 
> > out
> >
> > a report.  I said in a previous post that GEB
> offers a $250 per year grant
> > toward vet expenses and $300 if you do the
> report.  I have no problem with
> > this and it is meant as an inceptive but again not
> mandatory.  My landlord
> > does the same thing with the rent.  If you pay it
> within the first 5 days 
> > of
> >
> > the month it is $50 less but if you are delinquent it
> is $50 more, so its
> > not unheard of to build an incentive in.
> >
> > Julie Phillipson
> >
> >
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