When The Appeal relaunched as a worker-led nonprofit newsroom in 2021, two of the first questions we had to answer were: Can we legally do this? And, if so, how?
We knew there were collaboratively run nonprofits out there, so we figured there had to be a way. But we also knew that we had to comply with state and federal governance regulations, which meant we needed bylaws.
Bylaws define the internal rules that govern how your organization runs, makes decisions, and chooses leaders. While they might seem like (and, let’s be honest, are) boring legal documents, your bylaws are actually one of your strongest tools for legitimizing new and innovative organizational structures.
In this piece, we’ll walk you through the steps to drafting new bylaws.
