National Albanian Registry
Advisory board · Founding twelve
501(c)(3)
No fiduciary liability
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Twelve seats. The constitutional layer of NAR.
NAR counts Albanian Americans of every background — origins in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Çamëria, the Arbëreshë, and the U.S.-born descendants of all of them. NAR's bylaws separate operational power (the eight managing-board admins who run the platform) from constitutional power (the advisory board, who vote on the decisions that change the organization's direction). The advisory board is the community's check on the people running the platform. Until we seat twelve, those decisions fall back to a 6-of-8 founders threshold. Reaching twelve is the bootstrap unlock. You'd be one of the founding cohort that gets us there.
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What the role is
Tier
Observer (tier='observer') — read-only operating access
Time
~2 hours per year. Annual COI (Jan 31), ad-hoc votes, optional monthly call.
Voting
Three categories only: data-usage policy (≥51%), bylaws (≥75%), dissolution (≥80%).
Liability
None. Fiduciary duty is a managing-board obligation; advisory members carry no personal liability.
Confidentiality
Article V whistleblower confidentiality. Otherwise the work is public — bylaws, decisions, audit log.
Term
Open-ended. Self-resignation is unblockable per Article III. No fixed term length.
Why this moment
Vatra (1912), AANO, the Albanian American Civic League, AAWO, and parish networks have carried the community for generations. What none of them was built to do — and what NAR is built to do — is produce a verifiable, household-level count of Albanians in the U.S. that funders, lawmakers, and partner orgs can use. The advisory board you'd be joining is the constitutional layer of that data work. Read the long-form thesis →
What you get
- ✓Name on the public governance roster, listed alongside the managing board — on the record
- ✓A vote on the constitutional questions when they come up
- ✓Monthly governance brief by email · ~5-min read
- ✓Founding-cohort cachet — "founding advisory member"
- ✓Audience access for the community work you already lead elsewhere
- ✓Voice in NAR's bootstrap decisions before they're locked
What we ask
- Annual conflict-of-interest disclosure (Article VI; takes ~5 minutes)
- Reasonable response time on advisory votes (14-day window per action; abstentions are valid "no" votes)
- Standard 501(c)(3) duty of care, loyalty, and obedience — applied to the advisory role's narrower scope
- That you tell us early if your situation changes (a new board seat, a financial interest, a public stance) so we can manage the disclosure
How to accept
- 1
Reply to confirm
Email or call. Tell us you want the COI form.
- 2
Sign + return
One page, ~5 minutes. Article VI compliance.
- 3
You're seated
Filed as a gov_advisor_seat action. Listed publicly. Done.
No formal ceremony. You're welcome at the next governance call if you'd like to be introduced to the rest of the board — but not required.