We’re always happy to have people write guest posts here on the Refresh blog. It goes without saying that there is so much going on in our industry that we simply cannot cover it all on our own. With this in mind, we would like to unveil our guest blogger program and welcome anyone willing to share news, insights or opinions.

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Most of you may remember our announcement at NetChange Week, where we declared our intention to begin the process of transitioning to a non-profit organization.

The process to complete this transition is as follows:

1. Board Functions and Nomination Process
Purpose: This is a conversation to discuss the role that the Board will play within the organization – functional or governing – as well as the process to their nomination. This conversation will also include developing roles for Board members. Our goal is to create a nominating committee with the express function of vetting candidates for the final Board of Directors.

2. Corporate Core Values
Purpose: While the corporate mission statement exists, it’s important to establish core values before going through the nomination process. We’ve done a lot of this work already, and we’ve already come up with some ideas during previous brainstorming session. Regardless, it’s good to have this completed before opening nominations, so as to encourage the right people for the organization to be involved.

3. Nominations and Elections
Purpose: This is the process where we actually go through and select the individuals for the board. Important consideration needs to be taken here for the roles we’ve identified that the Board will play in the organization. Nominations can be open in general or specific to position. We can administer this through a variety of means, either offline or on, as determined in #1.

4. Creation of Corporate By-Laws
Purpose: Once our Board is in place, creating the rules for them and the corporation to follow is next in order before forming the corporation. Refresh Events and the Board will need to figure out requirements like how often you want elections to occur, scenarios for removing Directors if necessary, and a few other requirements along those lines.

5. Board Session – Roles, Long-Term Strategies, and Scheduling and Reporting
Purpose: This is an informative and strategic session to go over the Board’s roles, set executive reporting, set schedules for meetings and topics, and developing some long-term strategic plans for the corporation. The anticipated goals for this are to be able to set expectations for the members of the Board and yourself for how their interaction with operational pieces work. This will likely be a half-day or full-day session.

6. Administrative work – filing for NFP, incorporating
Here we will be creating the letters patent and articles of incorporation, filing for the incorporation, and the related processes.

This process has already begun, but due to circumstances out of our control, we now find it necessary to put out a public call for help to complete this transition.

If you have experience in these processes, and have helped establish non-profit organizations in the past, let’s talk! Please fill out the form below, and we’ll get in touch with you. Note that this is a volunteer position, and that while we cannot pay the chosen candidate for the work performed, know that we are more than willing to provide remuneration through other means.

Applications will be accepted from Friday July 16th 2009 until 5pm on July 23rd 2009. The vetting process will take place over a 1 week period starting from July 23rd 2009 and lasting until July 30th 2009, at which point a decision will be made and the chosen candidate will be notified. Good luck!

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• Thank You
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