board of directors

a sunflower in full bloom with a few pollinators flitting about.

start the future

let’s build a cooperative, step 8: convene your first cooperative owners’ meeting

"A Parley of Reviews and Approvals" is the fantasy book I wrote about this step

a photo of a forest on the Rattlesnake Ledge trail. tall straight evergreens cover the image as wide and as far away as the e

working

building a better board

Board members are almost never the ones using the services their organization provides. Some may have lived experience: they experienced first-hand the problems their non-profit aims to solve. While some people dream of a board full of lived experience, lived experience is not enough. Instead, we should want people who

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