The Nonprofit FAQ
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| Jim Slaughter, Certified Professional Parliamentarian and Professional Registered Parliamentarian, has a web site with a wide range of useful articles. Each group will likely find an article that pertains to their planned usage, e.g., associations, school boards, nonprofits (general), etc. First find the article that pertains to your planned usage. Then see his "Cheat Sheets." See http://www.jimslaughter.com/articles.htm . And see also http://www.paulmcclintock.com/links.htm#Nonprofit (thanks to Paul McClintock for providing this link). The associations of parliamentarians have websites at:
The dmoz "open directory" project offers a listing of web resources about parliamentary procedure at http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Parliamentary_Procedure/ Don Griesmann offered this list of online resources on 9/24/02:
Marga asked in Charity Law in January 1999: This said, can someone suggest a method other than Robert's Rules of Order to conduct meetings? And J. E. McNeil of McNeil & Ricks, PC (jmcnrick@erols.com) replied: Well, yes, since you asked. Very few of my clients use Robert's because they use consensus (or in the case of my Quaker clients: will of the meeting which loosely translates into God's will) to conduct the meeting. If you want further information I can recommend the book: Beyond Majority Rule written by two Jesuit Priests. (My favorite chapter is where they explain why Papal Infallibility is better than the Quaker notions). But personally, I find my non-Quaker clients have trouble with the practice. :-) But it is legit if the by-laws are properly written. Even the IRS finds it unobjectionable. Note: The only book on Amazon.Com's list that matches that title seems to be slightly different. It is Beyond Majority Rule: Voteless Decisions in the Religious Society of Friends by Michael J. Sheeran (Order Beyond Majority Rule from Amazon.Com; your purchase will generate a royalty which will be used to maintain this site.) The Free Management Library provides information to ensure effective board meetings. See the guidelines and samples included in the "Sample Meeting Agenda" at http://www.mapnp.org/library/boards/agenda.htm and "Sample Meeting Minutes" at http://www.mapnp.org/library/boards/minutes.htm and "Board Attendance Policy" at http://www.mapnp.org/library/boards/brdattnd.htm Re-posted January 21, 1999 with additions and update from May 31, 1998 --PB; revised 8/11/99 -- CM; 9/9/00, 9/25/02, 9/26/03; 12/18/04
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