For board champions

The tools you're using to elect your board members weren't made for you.

Most nonprofit boards piece together their governance with a voting app here, an application form there, and email threads no one can find six months later. The process is highly manual, inefficient, and cumbersome for your board members and staff. And the all-inclusive platforms? Those are built for Fortune 500 companies and priced to match.

Nobody owns the full picture: nominations, candidate vetting, member verification, and finalized elections that define how your organization governs itself.

TrueBoard.co is built specifically for nonprofits who need more than a ballot box and less than a massive boardroom software suite — at a price point that makes sense.

One platform. One source of truth. Built for the boards that make a difference.

Start an election

Bring this pitch to your next board meeting.

The problem in one page

Nonprofit boards are stuck between two bad options. Here's the third one.

Doing it ourselves

Paper ballots, Google Forms, email threads, shared drives.

Risk: No audit trail. Easy to lose records. Hard to verify who voted.

Enterprise board portals

Diligent, BoardEffect, Boardable — feature-rich but priced for Fortune 500.

Risk: $10k+ per year. Weeks of onboarding. Features you'll never use.

TrueBoard

Purpose-built for nonprofit boards. Verified members, anonymous ballots, full audit trail.

Result: A defensible election in days, not months. Free to start.

How a TrueBoard election runs

A clear, four-phase process. Your board stays in control of every transition.

1. Invite members

Upload your roster. Share one secure link. Members verify with email and member ID.

2. Collect nominations

Verified members nominate candidates. Nominees claim and complete a structured application.

3. Vet candidates

Your nominations committee reviews privately and approves the slate. Members never see who was rejected.

4. Vote and announce

Verified members cast one anonymous ballot. Publish results to membership when ready.

Anonymous, auditable ballots

We record that you voted, never how. Every administrative action is logged.

Verified members only

Members verify against your roster — no impersonation, no duplicate votes.

Private results

Live tallies are visible only to your nominations committee until you publish.

Objections, answered

These are the questions every board asks. Use them as a script.

What to bring to your board meeting

A short checklist for the board champion.

I've read this document and can summarize it in one minute.
I know who on our board will have the most concerns — and which objection above to lead with for them.
I've located our current bylaws section on elections and electronic voting (or confirmed it's silent).
I have a rough timeline for our next board election (nominations open, voting open, results published).
I've identified two or three people willing to serve on the nominations committee.
I know who maintains our member roster and can produce a clean export (name, email, member ID).
I'm prepared to propose the motion — or table the decision to a follow-up meeting.

Sample motion language

Copy and paste into your meeting agenda. Edit names and dates to fit.

MOTION: That the Board of Directors of [Organization Name] authorize the use of TrueBoard (trueboard.co) as the official platform for conducting the [year] election of directors, including the nomination, candidate vetting, and balloting phases; that [Name] be designated as the lead administrator; that a Nominations Committee consisting of [Names] be empaneled to review candidate applications; and that the Secretary be directed to retain the platform's audit log as part of the official corporate record of the election.

Sample bylaw amendment (if needed)

SECTION [X.X] — ELECTRONIC VOTING. Any vote of the membership or of the Board of Directors permitted or required under these Bylaws may be conducted by electronic means, provided that the platform used reasonably authenticates the identity of each voter, records that each eligible voter cast no more than one ballot, and produces a record of the result that is retained as part of the official corporate record.

One platform. One source of truth.

Built for the boards that make a difference.