How do we go on with a management committee of zero?
What do we do if nobody nominates from the floor at the AGM?
Our Community's thinker-in-residence aka "Agony Uncle" Chris Borthwick, answers curly questions from not-for-profits. Here's a great selection of his entertaining and insightful responses. As one thankful inquirer put it ...
Thank you for your absolutely brilliant response! This is the first time I’ve seen anything at all to do with non-profit governance be anything but dull and humourless!!!
Has your organisation got a problem?
A deal-making dilemma or a constitutional conundrum?
Found yourself in a personality pickle or a media muddle?
What do we do if nobody nominates from the floor at the AGM?
In this help sheet series, Our Community’s resident agony uncle, Chris Borthwick, offers answers to…
I am a member of a small committee which has an executive to carry out our decisions. We have a…
Currently, our board’s secretary is the CEO’s executive assistant. Board members have been…
Our organisation has around 300 members and we’re wanting to establish whether postal voting is…
Do we need to have our policies reviewed and ratified, and if so who should do this?
I have been asked to set up some policies for our community-based sporting organisation and I have…
I would like to understand the role of an observer who attends a not-for-profit board meeting. I…
I have a governance question about whether a term in our constitution restricting the number of…
Our club is coming up to its AGM. If there are no contested positions (that is, there is one…
How can people move and second a nomination before the AGM? Can people be nominated from the floor…
I need some information on paying employees from charity funds. How much do I allocate for wages?…