Step 2 of 6
Assemble the board
Recruit an onafhankelijk bestuur with no single person holding beschikkingsmacht.
Right now
Recruit at least 3 onafhankelijke bestuurders.
No person or family may hold a majority of control, and no single party may have beschikkingsmacht over the vermogen.
What this step also covers
A real moment to pause
This is often the hardest step. Step 1 was a category check you could do alone at your desk. Step 2 asks for three independent people willing to share governance of something that doesn’t exist yet — and most founders stall here. If this feels heavy, that’s not a sign you’re doing it wrong. It’s the work.
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Make a shortlist
Before you forget — who comes to mind? People who care about your mission, who you trust with money and judgement, who can disagree well. You only need three to start.
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Before you book the notaris
Three equal votes on how capacity gets deployed
The clearest way to satisfy beschikkingsmacht isn’t to audit for who has too much control — it’s to design for distributed control from the start. Give each of the three bestuurders one vote of equal weight, and require a majority for every decision about how the organisation’s capacity — time, money, and reputation — is deployed.
Done this way, the test is satisfied by construction: no single bestuurder can carry a vote alone, so no single party can dispose of the vermogen as if it were their own. What to write into the statuten:
- — One vote per bestuurder, no doorslaggevende stem voor de voorzitter
- — Majority required for resource-deployment decisions (budgets, grants, hires, dispositions)
- — No founder veto or other special powers attached to a single person
- — Co-signing: bank and contract authority requires two bestuurders