Nonprofit wizards say this all the time: Update your bylaws.
That’s good advice.
They describe the nonprofit’s bylaws as its “roadmap” or its “playbook.”
Also true.
Here’s what I have to add.
The bylaws are not the bottom line. The determinative bottom line will always be the statutes that govern the organization. Because…they are the law. (For example: in New York, the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law; in Wisconsin, the chapter entitled Nonstock Corporations; in Maine, the Nonprofit Corporation Act.)
Those
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