Can I run Subcommittees in my portal?

You can either setup a new portal for a subcommittee or adjust your current portal to run your board and subcommittees.

Which option you choose will depend on your organisation's specific situation.

Subcommittees in Current Portal

It is possible to run subcommittee meeting in the same portal as your board meetings.

Pros

• Keeps everything together
• One portal to manage
• No extra costs or subscription fees

Cons

You may need to be more careful with your portal's permissioning, specifically when assigning Member Roles and also when specifying access to folders in Documents.

One issue for some organisations is that different people administer the board and the subcommittees. This is typically an issue that occurs when a subcommittee admin needs to perform admin actions on the portal, but should be have access to any board specific data. In this case you may need to use a seperate portal.

For details on configuring your portal for multiple committees please click here.

Subcommittee in new portal

Sometimes it makes more sense to seperate out subcommittees

Pros

• Complete separation of data
• Restricts those assigned the Admin Role to one portal (eg Subcommittee portal) and not have access to another (Board's portal).

Remember that the Admin on a portal can access EVERYTHING but they cannot view another portal unless also granted access to that portal and granted Admin access there as well.

Cons

Costs more as you will need to a second subscription (we do offer discounts for additional subscriptions paid by one organisation, please contact our team for details).

Can I run staff meetings in my portal?

Similar to the above