Associations & member networks
Member governance between meetings and general assemblies
Loomio gives members, committees, chapters, and governing bodies one place to prepare decisions, take part across distance, and keep a clear record of what was agreed.
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Membership is a governance relationship
Members need more than updates and occasional surveys. They need a dependable way to exercise the rights and responsibilities their organisation gives them.
The assembly cannot carry everything
Annual and general meetings are too scarce for all the preparation, consultation, amendments, and decisions that governance requires.
Different groups hold different authority
Boards, committees, chapters, delegates, staff, and the full membership need their own spaces and a shared understanding of who decides what.
Elected roles change
When office holders rotate, the organisation needs more than somebody’s inbox. New leaders need the decisions, reasons, and unfinished work that came before 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.”
Conservation governance at a global scale
240 participants from 70 countries, speaking dozens of languages, need to reach consensus — and they've never once had to fall back to a vote.
- General Assembly across 70 countries
- Inclusion across all time zones
- Async consensus around live meetings
- Automatic multilingual translation
Support the whole member-governance cycle
Use Loomio alongside your constitution, meetings, and established decision rules—from early committee work through to a formal member outcome.
Committees prepare the work
Give boards, councils, and working groups focused spaces to develop recommendations, review documents, and bring a clear proposal to members.
Members consider resolutions
Circulate the proposal and supporting information, allow questions and amendments, then use the decision method and timeframe your rules require.
Assemblies arrive prepared
Use asynchronous discussion before and after live sessions. Spend meeting time on the issues that need genuine dialogue, not reading papers aloud.
Outcomes remain accountable
Keep the resolution, member reasoning, result, and next steps together so chapters, committees, and future office holders can find them.
FairShares Association · International member network
“It enables you to function like you’ve got a general meeting on all the time. All of the members get proposals, and they get time to consider and vote on the issues.”
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.”
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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Give members a dependable place to govern together
Start with one committee, an upcoming resolution, or the preparation for your next general assembly.
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