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Eight Strategic Mistakes with Memberships
...them they can join at a discount if they join right now at this event. (Even if your bylaws specify the membership amount you should be able to give “early bird” and other kinds of discounts.) You could offer them 5% off at the next event, or 16 months of...
Can Nonprofit Boards Vote By Email?
...emerge in the course of such discussions and pitfalls are more likely to be identified.” He goes on to point out that “a telephone conference meeting, assuming the organization’s bylaws and the statutes of its state of incorporation permit that method, is preferable to email voting for many reasons.”
...Six of Our Board Members are in Prison
...in how we make that change — it won’t work.
Our bylaws say that a minimum of 1/3 of our board members need to be currently or formerly in prison. We added the "formerly" because we realized we could be in trouble if all the board members in prison...
Fundraising Confessions of a Former Camp Fire Girl
...to a nonprofit on whose board they serve. When is the last time you heard a board member say, “I just love development! Can I be on that committee?” I thought so. I myself would rather redraft the bylaws.
But the fact remains: in most nonprofits, board...
Model Document Retention Policy for Nonprofits
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Internal reports, miscellaneous: 3 years
Inventories of products, materials, supplies: 10 years
Invoices to customers: 10 years
Invoices from vendors: 10 years
Journals: 10 years
Minute books of Board of Directors, including Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation: Permanently
Payroll records and summaries, including
...Six Things Every Board Member Should Know About the NEW 990
...nonprofit finance, executive transition, and other issues.
Editor’s note: Starting in January 2009 we’ll be having a series on board policy documents with model templates including conflict of interest policy, bylaws, whistleblower policy, document retention policy, ethics policy, and more. Stay tuned to your Inbox!
...Nonprofit Spotlight: Donna Murray Brown is Tearing Down the Silos in Michigan
...smaller and more aligned board, moving from a 41-member-board to 21 members,” she says. Board members each came to MNA because they had been associated with connected to isolated programs. They changed the long-standing bylaws, that called for 23 specific organizations to have a seat at the board table. Moving...