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!)