(Arizona) Nonprofit strong-armed me into accepting $0 salary and did not provide 50% of stipulated project funding for duration of contract. Am I still obligated to reimburse them for whatever money they did provide?
In early September I was offered a position as coordinator of a voter registration campaign in our area by an out-of-state CA non-profit looking to expand into a heavily Hispanic suburb nearby me. The five positions available 2x chairperson, 2X coordinator, treasurer were all advertised as $2000 flat- rate jobs for the duration of the registration period. Training was to be offered in California for the job. I reviewed my schedule and realized that I did not have time to adequately work as a coordinator, but would still be able to manage finances for the local operation and agreed to take on the role of treasurer - still advertised as being paid. We were driven out to California and had training.
During training it was stated that each local operation would get $1000 in two $500 installments for necessary equipment and compensation. After signing my contract, it was clarified that only coordinators and 'chairpeople' of each operation would be paid the flat rate and that I the only treasurer left in the room, as others had taken off was doing this without a set pay. They hinted that a cost- efficient job managing the money would give me the remainder, but none of that was in writing. As I was in California without a cheap way of getting back otherwise, I signed on. They handed me my first $500 check for project expenses and we packed up and left.
The operation was a failure (hit 15% of our goal numbers) and the lack of involvement from the chairpeople forced me to take on a larger role in the project than treasurer. The second $500 supplies check never came. After registration period had ended, I realized that my financial balance sheets were not perfectly in order - roughly $30 unaccounted for. The nonprofit is asking the coordinator for final financial reports while withholding half his pay, and he is forwarding those requests to me. All discrepancies in the balance sheet are to be paid out of my pocket, as well as the remainder of the $500 we were given for supplies. I have the receipts to verify most of our spending during the operation - except for the aforementioned $30. However, as I was never paid, worked more than my position stipulated, and never got half of the resource budget, I want to know if I am still liable to pay the remaining money money not spent money w/o receipts back to them?
In early September I was offered a position as coordinator of a voter registration campaign in our area by an out-of-state CA non-profit looking to expand into a heavily Hispanic suburb nearby me. The five positions available 2x chairperson, 2X coordinator, treasurer were all advertised as $2000 flat- rate jobs for the duration of the registration period. Training was to be offered in California for the job. I reviewed my schedule and realized that I did not have time to adequately work as a coordinator, but would still be able to manage finances for the local operation and agreed to take on the role of treasurer - still advertised as being paid. We were driven out to California and had training.
During training it was stated that each local operation would get $1000 in two $500 installments for necessary equipment and compensation. After signing my contract, it was clarified that only coordinators and 'chairpeople' of each operation would be paid the flat rate and that I the only treasurer left in the room, as others had taken off was doing this without a set pay. They hinted that a cost- efficient job managing the money would give me the remainder, but none of that was in writing. As I was in California without a cheap way of getting back otherwise, I signed on. They handed me my first $500 check for project expenses and we packed up and left.
The operation was a failure (hit 15% of our goal numbers) and the lack of involvement from the chairpeople forced me to take on a larger role in the project than treasurer. The second $500 supplies check never came. After registration period had ended, I realized that my financial balance sheets were not perfectly in order - roughly $30 unaccounted for. The nonprofit is asking the coordinator for final financial reports while withholding half his pay, and he is forwarding those requests to me. All discrepancies in the balance sheet are to be paid out of my pocket, as well as the remainder of the $500 we were given for supplies. I have the receipts to verify most of our spending during the operation - except for the aforementioned $30. However, as I was never paid, worked more than my position stipulated, and never got half of the resource budget, I want to know if I am still liable to pay the remaining money money not spent money w/o receipts back to them?