Clubs and small nonprofits

Storage for important organizational files

Has your club or nonprofit ever:

• Lost the bylaws or disagreed about which version is the current version?
• Lost track of what was previously decided or forgot to apply amendments that were passed?
• Failed to take legally-required meeting minutes?
• Lost control of files stored in Google Drive because they were owned by someone who left the organization?

I've seen all of these things happen, and I hope that this website can prevent them from happening to you, for a price that you can afford.

Deletion protections

This website allows you to protect your important files from accidental deletion by requiring multiple authorized people to sign-off on deletion and by enforcing a mandatory notification-and-delay period. These features are optional, but helpful to make sure nobody deletes the bylaws.

Assisted minute-taking

This website makes taking meeting minutes a breeze by automatically capturing the activity within the meeting and letting you fill in information as desired. Then, it automatically converts your minutes to PDF after the meeting, and safely stores the PDF for you. It can even use a custom template that you provide or that we create just for you.

Talking queue

Does your organization use a whiteboard or list to track who is waiting to speak in a meeting? This website can do that for you.

This website supports a multi-tiered queue of those waiting to speak.

1. Attendees who are waiting to deliver normal debate are handled first-come-first-served.
2. Attendees can instead enqueue to deliver a response (or piggyback, or whatever you want to call it; the name is configurable), which puts them at a higher priority level that is handled before normal debate. These responses are handled first-come-first-served. This level can be disabled.
3. Attendees who want to make an actual motion get even higher priority, and the various kinds of motions have different precedence relative to each other.

These priority levels only affect queue positon, with the Chair having discretion to choose which item he takes from the queue at any time.

Elections

There are many more voting methods than you might be familiar with. Most organizations use plurality or exhaustive ballot for electing officers and directors. Plurality (also known as first-past-the-post) is an all-around poor voting method that should honestly never be used, and exhaustive ballot can take a lot of time or deadlock. With the electronic voting tools provided by RONRator, you are empowered to explore fairer and more efficient methods to choose one or more candidates in only one round of voting.

The electronic voting methods supported by RONRator are:

• Plurality (a.k.a. first-past-the-post)
• Exhaustive ballot
  • Robert's Rules version
  • with elimination (reduces liklihood of stalemate)
• Instant runoff
  • with Borda count breaking ties for last place
• Condorcet
  • Schulze with ties broken randomly
• Borda count
  • without tiebreaker
  • with ties broken randomly
• Approval
• Score (a.k.a. range)

If there's a different voting method or variant that you want to use, please contact us and we'll be happy to add it.

Follow Robert's Rules better

When you're using RONRator, following Robert's Rules is easy, but it's also not forced on you. Use the available motion types when you need them, and just use the talking queue and assisted minute-taking when you don't.