Governance and boards
Good governance does not
happen only in the boardroom
Loomio gives boards a shared place to stay informed, deliberate carefully, and record the decisions that guide the organisation between meetings.
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Board meetings are too important to spend on catch-up
When context lives in inboxes and urgent questions wait for the next meeting, governance becomes slower, less visible, and harder to carry forward.
Context is scattered
Board papers, email threads, and informal conversations make it difficult to see the whole picture when a consequential decision needs attention.
Urgent matters wait
Monthly meetings cannot carry every decision. Teams need a way to respond without sacrificing thoughtful discussion or accountability.
The reasoning gets lost
A minute records the outcome, but not always the questions, trade-offs, and expertise that helped the board reach it.
"Our board group has been particularly transformative, enabling continuous governance, improving response times and increasing our agility, resilience and sustainability… Loomio saves us thousands of pounds every year."Austen Cordasco, Co-operative Assistance Network
A co-op that teaches other co-ops democracy
A workers' co-op that teaches other co-ops how to be democratic had to figure out how to practice what it preached — with a team scattered across the UK.
- Continuous governance without extra meetings
- Conversations driven to clear outcomes
- Thousands saved on meeting costs
- Faster responses, greater agility
"The record is really the key thing. Separating these consequential decisions from the noise. From email, from chat. Having a place where you can easily reference what was decided and why."Jared Messinger, World Resources Institute
How a global nonprofit brought transparency to distributed decisions
150 people across three continents, restoring degraded land—and the decisions couldn't wait for the next meeting.
- Clear record of key decisions
- Structured input from distributed teams
- Multi-stage approvals across time zones
- Decisions separated from communication noise
"You have a platform to express your opinion asynchronously. It enables everybody from every time zone to contribute. I can confirm that all of our ‘official’ decisions as a collective nowadays are Loomio decisions."Anja Petkovic Komel, Argot Collective
Building blockchain without bosses
Twenty-eight developers spun out of the Ethereum Foundation with no hierarchy, no executives, and a rule that every decision must have everyone's consent.
- Consent-based distributed decisions
- Legally binding governance decisions
- Every voice heard across time zones
- Official record of decision rationale
A dependable decision practice between meetings
Keep board work connected to the decisions it informs, while making it easier for the right people to contribute at the right time.
Bring in the right expertise
Invite the people responsible for, affected by, or expert in an issue without turning every discussion into an all-hands meeting.
Make the next step clear
Frame a proposal, make time for questions and concerns, and close with an outcome the board and operational team can act on.
Preserve institutional memory
Keep a searchable record of decisions and their rationale so new trustees and future boards can find the context they need.
Give your board more room to govern well
Start with one committee, one project, or the decision that should not wait until the next meeting.
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