Did you ever notice that no one seems to look at the bylaws of an organization when everything is running smoothly? Then one fine day a board member, who has missed four of the last six meetings, makes some embarrassing public pronouncement. Now what? This is only one of the areas where your agency’s bylaws [...]
Bylaws are not a static document. Sometimes the rules need to be revised. Things change. Opportunities and threats present and must be addressed. It’s like adjusting the family rules to make them appropriate for your good-kid who just got his driver’s license. Those old rules about not crossing the street without holding a grown-up’s hand [...]
I had a note from a reader: Kerch – I just bought your book and look forward to working through it. I have a question. Are you aware of new rules that require nonprofits to have a privacy promise and/or a conflict of interest agreement incorporated in the bylaws? Thanks for buying the book..and thanks [...]
Einstein said: Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler. Same goes for bylaws of your nonprofit organization. You need enough structure in your bylaws to enable to organization to function well, but not so much as to hamstring its work. If you leave something out of the bylaws: It might be interpreted to [...]
Last weekend my family sat down to play a new game, Cleopatra And The Society of Architects. In general, I hate games. (I have a terrible time waiting for my turn.) But this one was pretty cool. It has some interesting strategy twists. What’s that have to do with bylaws? My daughter had played the [...]
I know bylaws. But I don’t know the rules in every state. I just found this great book that has—among other great things—an appendix that lists, state by state, what is required to form a nonprofit organization. It’s possible that some stuff may be slightly out of date, but at least it tells you where [...]
Bylaws are just like that.
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