6.2.6.1. The ownership of NGO's with an action history is more or less with the volunteers. Paying people for the same job the volunteers do for free always lead to difficulties. If paid people get other tasks then the volunteers, f.i. financial specialists or the task to guide and support the volunteers, then an upper and lower class of workers tend to show up, a phenomenon not welcomed by the volunteers. The reason for this difficulties is the fact that payment is experienced as appreciation of one's work. If some are paid and others are not, it is very difficult for the not-paid to keep out the feeling of not being valued.

Sometimes it may seem inevitable to pay people for their work in an otherwise voluntary organisation, but using their talents as external experts, is preferable to letting them join the organisation.

If the organisation gets into the process of professionalisation payment will become normal. In that case the transition from volunteering to getting paid should be a fast one, because discrepancies between paid and not paid people will not be beared for a long time.

Look at solution 2: from pioneer to professional. Look at solution 4: growth.