start the future
let's build a cooperative, step 9: convene your first board meeting
i'm really burning through my hyphen budget on this series
board of directors
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
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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