Associations & member networks
Help members shape decisions before the vote
Bring proposals, questions, and different perspectives together. Give members time to contribute across chapters and time zones, then make a decision with a clear record.
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Draw on the experience across your membership
Your members bring knowledge from different places and perspectives. Give them a way to question a proposal, suggest changes, and understand each other before a decision closes.
The meeting time does not work for everyone
Time zones, paid work, and volunteer commitments make live participation difficult. Open the discussion over days so members can read, reflect, and contribute when they can.
A yes-or-no vote misses the reasoning
A final ballot tells you the result. Discussion and proposals with reasons help you understand concerns, find common ground, and improve the idea before that ballot.
The important context is scattered
When a proposal lives in an email chain, a chat channel, and a presentation, catching up takes work. Keep the background, questions, and outcome together so members and future leaders can find them.
ICCA Consortium · General Assembly across 70 countries
“Loomio facilitated the active participation of people unable to join the sessions because of time zone constraints.”
Sarah Ryder, Operations Coordinator, ICCA Consortium
Conservation governance at a global scale
See how the ICCA Consortium uses Loomio to include 240 participants across 70 countries and multiple languages in asynchronous General Assembly decisions.
- General Assembly across 70 countries
- Inclusion across all time zones
- Async consensus around live meetings
- Automatic multilingual translation
From an open question to a shared decision
Make space for deliberation alongside your constitution, meetings, and established decision rules. Use Loomio for preparation and discussion even when the final ballot happens elsewhere.
Invite members in while the idea can change
Share the question and supporting information early. Let members ask questions, contribute local knowledge, and suggest improvements while the proposal is still taking shape.
Understand support and concerns
Use a sense check to gather early reactions, advice to inform a decision maker, or consent and consensus proposals to work towards agreement. Invite people to explain their position.
Bring a prepared proposal to the meeting
Discuss the proposal before a live session and leave time for responses afterwards. Bring the questions that need conversation to the meeting, with the background already available.
Keep the reasoning with the outcome
Record what was agreed and what happens next alongside the discussion, proposal, and responses. Chapters, committees, and new office holders can return to the same record.
FairShares Association · International member network
“Loomio enables people whose voices were normally not heard to exercise their voices more effectively.”
Rory Ridley-Duff, FairShares Association
A multi-stakeholder network runs a general meeting that never adjourns
A network of cooperative researchers across five countries can never all meet face to face — so they run a general meeting that never adjourns.
- Online governance with nested subgroups
- Continuous general meeting online
- Unheard voices participating effectively
- Cross-language research collaboration
One organisation, many constituencies
Reflect the structure members already understand
A federation is not one flat conversation. Neither is an association with chapters, committees, or organisational members.
Set up a main group for organisation-wide governance and subgroups for councils, regional chapters, permanent committees, or time-limited working groups. Keep sensitive board work private while making member decisions visible to the people entitled to participate.
Association-wide governance
Resolutions, elections, constitutional changes, strategy, and matters reserved for the full membership.
Boards and councils
Formal oversight, approvals, meeting preparation, and decisions delegated by the membership.
Chapters and working groups
Local autonomy and focused work, connected to the wider organisation when a decision affects everyone.
3rd Sector Group · Around 200 member charities
“We were doing it all by email and it was getting really confusing. People felt like they were missing out on being able to contribute.”
James Carlin, Co-founder, 3rd Sector Group
200 charities coordinate without a building or budget
When Bath lost its charity support agency, a handful of volunteers built one from scratch — no building, no budget, no government backing.
- Volunteers never miss key decisions
- Majority voice surfaced via polls
- Structured threads replace email chains
- Conversation summaries save reading time
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Try one shared decision with your members
Choose an upcoming proposal, invite a committee or a small group of representatives, and agree a clear timeframe. Use the trial to see whether members can contribute and find the decision record.
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