FreeCulture.org, now a real non-profit, needs advice

Cory Doctorow 1:04 am Fri May 27, 2005

Congrats to the copyfighting student movement Free Culture on having successfully incorporated as a nonprofit! Gavin Baker sez, "FreeCulture.org, that rabble of a student movement, is now a legit non-profit. We need opinions, advice, or cranky comments. We need help finding board members, mulling tax-exempt status, and much, much more."

Here are just some of the questions we have to consider:

* How big should the board of directors be?
* What should the makeup of the board be? For instance, should be it all students? Students and alumni? Others? What ratios/percentages? Should we have a student majority? A student-or-alumni majority?
* Who should we ask to serve on the board?
* Should we have an advisory board? Who should we ask to sit on that?
* Should board members be volunteers, or should we try to remunerate them?
* Officers: what are the roles/titles? (e.g. “treasurer”) What do we need? Who are they?
* Funding: what do we need it for? Where do we get it?

(Thanks, Gavin!)

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