Someone from my daughters school is trying to rope me into being a voting board member of this non profit that was started a few years ago and has since sort of fizzled out. They don't really have a clear mission. They have received grants and have done fund raising and have a decent amount of money in their account. Went to their first meeting of the year last night and it's no clearer.
Their mission is loosely to raise money to be a financial resource for programs of special education and to aid in getting around "red tape" of operating under the school districts and state guidelines.
For instance 2 of their expenditures of last year were purchasing items for autistic children from Amazon for classroom use since Amazon is not an authorized vendor to the school district and the authorized vendor charged 3 times as much and the school district denied the request.
The other example is they paid for a deaf presenter to do an assembly at my daughters school (a school for the deaf) to show the children what they can achieve being a deaf person in society. The school district denied this one as they deemed it noneducational and not meeting the curriculum of the district. While the deaf school pretty much doesn't follow the curriculum anyway.
Anyway, anyone have any tips for being a part of a non profit type organization?
Topic: Anyone on here know anything about running a non profit organization? (Read 409 times)