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ALL-VOLUNTEER NONPROFIT BOARDS

Eleven volunteers.
Zero logins.

The packet, the meeting, the minutes and the record for a board that meets four times a year and has no staff. Directors get a link, not an account, so the tool your board adopts is a tool your board actually opens.

$348 a year for the whole organization, not per director. If the board is not using it after 60 days, ask and we refund the year.

Four board members seated around one end of a long table with one chair empty.

THE BOARD PACKET

One email. No login at the other end.

The reason board software goes unused is not the software. It is the eleven password resets between the chair and a quorum.

  • One email carries the meeting, the agenda and the call to action to every director on the roster.
  • Each director gets their own link. It opens their page: the RSVP, the meeting details, and the documents the board has published.
  • Nobody creates an account, chooses a password, or installs anything. The link is the login.
  • The send is recorded: what went out, to whom, and when. That record is what answers "was the board notified" a year later.

The officers who administer the workspace do sign in, because somebody has to be able to publish. That is two or three people, not the whole board.

BETWEEN MEETINGS

Written consents between meetings, filed as resolutions.

Most of what a small board decides does not need a meeting. It needs a record that the decision was taken and who agreed to it.

You open a consent with four things: a title, the resolution text exactly as it will be adopted, unanimous or majority, and the date it closes. It goes to the seats recorded on your officers page, and to nobody else. Those seats are the audience and the denominator, frozen the moment it opens, so seating a tenth director next week does not change what this consent needed.

  • Every seated director gets their own signing link and signs by name. A consent is signed, not secret, so the record says who agreed to it.
  • Nobody sees a running tally while it is open, not even the secretary. Signatures are counted when it closes.
  • In the member portal the item reads "Written consent" and the button reads "Sign". It is never called an election, in the portal or in the email.
  • The secretary sees the count against the whole seated board, not against the directors who happened to answer, and can remind the seats that have not signed.
  • When it carries, one press files it as a resolution in Records with the next civic number, the date it was adopted, the count, and the names that signed yes.
  • A consent that did not pass files nothing. There is no resolution, because the board did not adopt one.
  • Consents still open when the next meeting notice goes out ride along in the same board packet email, each director with their own link.

The form shows what your state's nonprofit corporation act says about a board acting without a meeting, with the citation and the disclaimer beside it. We hold a rule for six of the eight states we have researched. Nevada and Texas show only the bylaws sentence, because we could not read those two provisions on the state's own site and a confident wrong sentence about a statute is worse than none. Every state, held rule or not, gets the same line: your bylaws decide whether your board can act without a meeting and how many seats must sign, and your bylaws win.

What the page shows you is the state default as we read it. It is not a ruling that your board may act without a meeting, and nothing here decides that for you. Our reading, to support your review, not legal advice. Confirm with your attorney before the board acts. We never tell a board that it is compliant.

MINUTES AND THE RECORD

The minutes are the record, not a Word file.

Minutes as a structured object, so a motion carries its count and a resolution carries the meeting it came from.

  • Chair, recorder, attendees, and whether a quorum was present.
  • The discussion, and each motion with its mover, its seconder and its count.
  • Action items, with who owns each one.
  • Publishing the minutes files them into the record, numbered and dated, where the next secretary can find them.

Bylaws, policies, resolutions and minutes live in one place, numbered and versioned. When a director asks what the board decided in 2024, the answer is a link, not a search through somebody's inbox.

HOW WE COMPARE

Boardable and OnBoard have more than we do.

Said first, because it is true and because you will find out in five minutes anyway.

Where they are the better buy

Committee workspaces, task assignment, document annotation, video meetings, a real mobile app, and a deep feature set built for boards with staff behind them. If your board wants those and will use them, buy one of those products. They price per user, and for a board with a budget that is a reasonable trade.

Where we are the better buy

One price for the whole organization rather than per director. No director account to create, remember or reset. Type sized for a board whose members are in their seventies. And a phone number that a person answers, which is how most of our customers get set up in the first place.

QUESTIONS BOARDS ASK

Questions board chairs ask.

Do board members need logins?

Directors do not. A director gets a link to the packet, the minutes and the record, and it opens. The officers who administer the workspace sign in. That is the whole reason a volunteer board can actually use this: nothing to install, nothing to remember.

How does an action without a meeting work?

You open a written consent with a title, the resolution exactly as it will be adopted, unanimous or majority, and a closing date. It goes to the seats on your officers page and nowhere else. Every seated director gets their own signing link and signs by name, nobody sees a tally until it closes, and if it carries you file it as a numbered resolution in Records in one press. It never tells you whether your board may act without a meeting. Your bylaws decide that.

How does this compare to Boardable or OnBoard?

They have more features than we do, and they price per user. Ours is one price for the whole organization and no director needs a login. If your board wants committee workspaces, task assignment and a mobile app, they are the better product. If it wants the packet, the minutes and the record without teaching eleven volunteers a new tool, we are.

What does a small board pay?

$348 a year for up to 50 members, which is $29 a month, billed once a year. A board of nine sits well inside that band. If the board is not using it after 60 days, ask and we refund the year.

Can we get an invoice instead of paying by card?

Yes. Call (512) 222-8191 and we invoice the organization. We take a check.