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Practical guidance on board minutes, governance, and getting it right.
Your Board Takes Minutes. What About Your Committees?
Some of the most important governance work happens between board meetings. Too often, the record of that work disappears.
What Happens When the Only Person Who Knows the Process Leaves?
Every organization has someone who knows where the records are and how the process works. Resilience is whether anything still works once they leave.
Minutes Are Your Organization's Memory
The real test of your board records isn't whether you have them. It's whether you can find what your organization already knows.
Do Board Minutes Even Matter?
It's easy to assume board minutes are just a compliance task. Here's why that assumption is wrong, and why it usually takes a crisis to find out.
Why Board Minutes Take So Long (And Why It Isn't Your Fault)
Board minutes take longer than expected because writing them requires judgment, not just note-taking. Here's why it isn't your fault, and what to do about it.
Most Board Members Never Read This Part of Form 990
Form 990 Part VI asks whether your board contemporaneously documented its meetings, and its committees' too. Most boards check yes without reading it.
Your Form 990 Isn't Just a Tax Filing. It's Your Public Governance Story.
Form 990's governance section is public, and funders, journalists and prospective board members read it. Most boards answer it on autopilot.
Board Minutes Are Everyone's Responsibility — And Nobody Knows It
Most organizations treat board minutes as one person's problem. Good minutes require something from everyone in the room — and nobody tells them what.
Board Minutes Seem Like a Humble Problem — Until They Become Legal Evidence
The organizations that end up in serious trouble rarely saw it coming. Their minutes weren't obviously bad. The problem was that none of it was on paper.
Help! I've Been Asked to Take Board Minutes. Now What?
Almost nobody gets trained to take board minutes. They just get asked. Here's what the job actually requires, and the biggest mistake new minute takers make.
What California HOAs Need to Know About the Davis-Stirling Act
Compliance in California can feel like a full-time job for part-time volunteers.
What the New Legislation Means for Washington HOAs
“Good enough” is officially no longer good enough.
What Makes Minutes Legal?
What minutes are, why they matter, and how to get them right.
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