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Volunteer and Small Institutions
Fire districts, service clubs, granges, and boards run by unpaid people: recruitment, the quorum problem, and the particular fragility of volunteer governance.
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Volunteers Doing Serious Work
Unpaid people perform work with real consequences across this state. Holding a standard without the instruments an employer has requires different methods, and most institutions use none.
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Running a Board Meeting That Matters
Volunteer boards spend most of their meeting time on reports and almost none on decisions. The agenda is the instrument, and almost nobody treats it as one.
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The Quorum Problem
Volunteer bodies fail from recruitment rather than from performance. The people who would serve well are the ones with the least available time, and nothing about the usual approach accounts for that.