Keep your board in motion.
Forward Motion is board management for volunteer boards — meetings, minutes, and motions, plus the follow-through in between: decisions tracked, obligations on schedule, everyone rowing.
Quorum met — the board can take binding votes.
The problem
Boards don’t stall in meetings — they stall between them.
Your board is made of capable, busy people who meet for ninety minutes a month. The meeting is the easy part. It’s the other twenty-nine days where momentum goes to die:
“Whatever happened to…”
A motion passed in October. It’s February. Nobody quite remembers who was doing it.
The deadline that snuck up
Conflict-of-interest forms, the audit, elections — remembered the week they’re due, or the week after.
Onboarding by osmosis
New members spend a year figuring out how the board works instead of contributing to the mission.
What makes it different
The governance cadence, on rails
Most board tools do meetings and file storage. Forward Motion also runs the annual obligations that make a board a board — automatically, from your own rules.
Conflict-of-interest attestations
Every board member signs annually, in the app, on your schedule. A declared conflict automatically flags them to recuse when a related vote comes up.
Compliance calendar
Elections, audited financials, filings, evaluations — the obligations that make a board a board, with real deadlines and reminders nobody has to remember to send.
New-member onboarding
A checklist generated the day someone joins, built from your orientation process. New members know what’s expected; you can see it happening.
Board & director evaluations
Annual self-evaluation and executive evaluation with genuinely confidential responses — individual answers are readable by no one, only the aggregate.
The essentials
Everything a working board needs, nothing it doesn’t
Meetings that run themselves
Agendas from your standard template, RSVPs, a live quorum meter set to your bylaws, motions and votes, minutes locked once approved.
One action-item tracker
Everything the board and its committees agreed to do, in one list, with owners and due dates — and reminders when things drift.
Roster & committees
Terms, renewal flags, committee charges and membership — including non-board committee members with their own limited sign-in.
Plain-language help, built in
Every governance term explained in one sentence, right where it appears. Your newest member never has to pretend to know what quorum means.
Built to be trusted
Your bylaws, your data, your instance
Configured to your bylaws
Quorum fraction, fiscal year, notice period, deadlines — the app enforces what your board already decided, not our opinions.
Your data, exportable any day
One click produces a complete export of everything. Documents never leave your own shared drive. Leaving is easy. That’s the point.
Your board’s own instance
Each board runs on its own infrastructure at its own address — nothing shared with any other organization.
A person answers
When you email Forward Motion, a real person answers — someone who sits at a board table too and knows what volunteer Tuesday nights are like.
Getting started
From first call to first meeting in about a week
We talk
A 30-minute call about your board, your bylaws, and where things stall.
I set it up
Your instance configured to your bylaws, your committees created, your board’s history imported — done for you.
Your board signs in
No passwords — everyone gets a sign-in link by email. Most members need zero training.
On the first call we talk about your board — how your bylaws define quorum, when your fiscal year runs, which obligations keep slipping. Then we configure Forward Motion to those rules and bring your history with you. Your board signs in to something that already fits.
Pricing
One plan. Everything included.
$149/month billed annually, plus a one-time onboarding fee. Every feature, unlimited members, a real person on the other end.
Let’s get your board moving.
A 30-minute call: you bring your bylaws and how your board works today; I’ll show you the app and answer everything. No pitch deck, no pressure.
Prefer email? erik@keepforwardmotion.com