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Years ago, when I was on the Board of Directors for a non-profit organization we had a person who ran the day to day business of the group (along with her staff) and we met once a month to review things, and decide the overall policies. There were procedures in place that we had to follow before we could call a Board meeting. Things are different these days as communications can be much faster but unless these Board members are doing this full time (and I doubt they are) we can't expect them to drop everything they are doing to focus on this one issue - no matter how important we think it is. Internet time and real time are two very different things.

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QFT.

I am chairman of a non-profit. Calling an unscheduled Board meeting requires that we send out certified letters to each Board member and that we confirm everyone has been notified. Then we have to ensure we get quorum at the meeting. The only alternative is "unanimous consent" where we get a signed, written (email is NOT sufficient) consent from every single Board member, consenting to the unscheduled "ad hoc" meeting. If just one Board member is on vacation in Italy for a month, no can do.

These rules are fairly standard/boilerplate and probably appear in 99% of all non-profit Bylaws. Calling for an unscheduled Board action is supposed to be difficult (to protect the rights of the Board members, who may in fact end up being held accountable for a Board action they might have no chance to even know about if the rules weren't so strict regarding unscheduled meetings).

Raymer already told you that the original endorsement was done by one person acting alone. I doubt the PPA is going to do anything without at least some form of Board involvement at this stage. This is inherently going to take a while. It could take weeks, possibly even months. In the organization I chair, we don't meet during the summer, and calling an unscheduled Board meeting would probably take me 3 weeks or more just to get notices sent to everyone, get unanimous consents, etc. Plus, regardless of what the Bylaws state, common courtesy dictates that if I know someone is out for a month on vacation, that I attempt to track them down and get their consent, even if technically speaking delivering a certified letter to their address (if anyone is there to sign for it) is sufficient.

Expecting a response at internet message board speed is completely unreasonable here.