Karma Compass

What it is

Karma Compass drafts board agendas and minutes, collects RSVPs and votes over email, and follows up on action items.

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Quick answers

1. What is Karma Compass for?

   Karma Compass is for running your board meetings and the work between them. The agenda, board packet, RSVPs, quorum, votes, minutes and action items live in one place, so each meeting picks up where the last one left off.

2. Who on our board uses it?

   Everyone uses it in their own role: the chair, the executive director, officers such as the secretary and treasurer, voting and non-voting members, and staff who support the board.

3. Do our directors need an account?

   No. Directors RSVP, vote and open the board packet from links in their email, without signing in. Anyone you invite can also sign in to see the full workspace.

4. Does Karma Compass do anything without our approval?

   Nothing official. The agents prepare the agenda, board packet, minutes, votes, new board members and updates, and each waits for a person with authority to approve it. The only thing that runs automatically is reminders about action items, and only once someone on your board turns on a check that sends it. The chair, executive director or board assistant can stop them at any time in Settings.

5. Is our information secure?

   Each organization's records are kept separate, and the database itself enforces that separation. Uploaded documents are stored encrypted in Amazon Web Services, and every upload is checked for its real file type and for unsafe content before it is kept.