[renewiltord]

It's a non-profit. The board doesn't do work. It's there to make sure you don't go around blowing the money or doing things contrary to the objective. Here it's presumably a way to get some cred and fundraising connections. They're probably net-positive in capital.

I'm setting up a non-profit and I need to find a board of independent directors. That's fine for me, but the thing will initially look like 1 worker, 5 directors. But it's not like I'm paying the 5.

[Suppafly]

Yeah I've never setup anything, but I assume a board more or less has a minimum size of several people that probably goes up the more complicated the setup is and as they get more involvement from outside groups. Unless they are paid positions, the size of the board really doesn't mean anything.