Board meeting agenda

This is the proposed agenda for the March 1st, 2005 Board meeting to be held at 19:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org.

1. Opening
2. Roll call
• Martin Schulze may not be present
• Bdale Garbee may not be present
3. President's update (John Goerzen)
4. Treasurer's report (Jimmy Kaplowitz)
5. Outstanding minutes (David Graham)
• January 4th, 2005
• February 1st, 2005
6. Items up for discussion:
   • Tax filing (John Goerzen)
   • Implementing the BBB Wise Giving Alliance Standards for Charity Accountability http://www.give.org/standards/ (MJ Ray)
7. Next meeting: April 5th, 2005 (John Goerzen)

Resolutions

( NO resolutions received )

March 2004 Treasurer's Report

(pending)



( Additional discussion items )

ObMeta: I'm not 100% sure who needs to agree this or the form it
should take. -- MJR, a contributing member

Can you add "Implementing the BBB Wise Giving Alliance Standards
for Charity Accountability http://www.give.org/standards/"
to the meeting agenda, please?

Here's the presentation:

The BBB Wise Giving Alliance is a Better Business Bureau which
publishes standards for US non-profit organisations.

Their standards for charity accountability seek to help donors
make "sound" giving decisions and encourage public confidence
in non-profit organisations.

SPI does not meet all the standards now and is not working
towards them, as far as I can tell.  Actions needed include
publishing how to obtain a recent good financial report near
the web site's call for donations, and submitting a short
performance review to the next general meeting.

I ask the board to appoint a standards reviewer to report next
meeting and, now and/or in future, to take actions to meet the
standards as identified.