*** Ability to have multiple boxes. 
For example, administrators could be allowed to create another "wikipages" box that represents another category of pages.  Multiple bulletin boards (or text box) would also be cool, which could help in providing explanations for each section (wikipages, discussions, resources, events, etc.), and provide more flexible content organizing. The "top" bulletin board for welcome message, the bottom bulletin board for featured contents/discussions/resources/jobs, etc.

To accommodate this multiplicity, a change in the "layout" template might be needed. (e.g. to allow for more than one "top" or "bottom" content, or to allow full width content in the "middle").

*** Ability to use HTML templates to invite new members to group
Right now, administrators only have access to a text format message to invite people to their group.

The ability to select from 1 or 2 templates (a template might include the logo of the group, and some text taken from "about section") to invite will make it more enticing for people to joi

***History for Bulletin Board.  It's basically a wikipage, so it needs a history so admins can revert to previous version. This would also remove the need to backup the bulletin board.

***Blog feature to Groups

Groups would be much more useful if each one had a blog (in addition to bulletin board). All I might want to post is a video, picture..or a quick comment...which the Bulletin Board allows me to do already...but with a blog format, whatever I post can at least be archived. So not only will there be a lot of posts someone can view, but I wouldn't have to delete old or outdated posts as well. This will make it more likely for me to post things.  Actually I imagined the bulletin board to be originally more like a blog...where I wouldn't have to delete previous posts. link

***Record "new member" in the "Activity Log"

At present this does note seem to be recorded, so group admin can not know who joined when. This also causes a new membership not being displayed in the watchlist alerts for groups.

*** "Forums >> Topics" structure for the "Discussions" box.

Initially, when the amount of discussion topics is low, there will not be much trouble in keeping up to date with all threads. When the amount increases, it gets difficult. Plus, newcomers to the group will simply be overwhelmed by the amount of topics (say, 200 topics), plus the absence of topic categorization. So, it would be nice if "Discussions" have a "forums >> topics" structure.

A layout that I find simple, intuitive and suitable for WiserEarth groups' "Discussion" box is the one used in http://edublogs.org/forums (powered by the open source bbPress, which is created by the creators of the wildly popular blog engine: Wordpress!). They also have a tag cloud, which can be put on the top or bottom part of WE group's "Discussions" box, employing the existing "Keywords" feature upon creating new topics.

Add to it "sticky" topic feature (plus ordering feature for the "sticky" topics) and a space for writing a collaborative summary of a discussion thread, groups would have a simple yet powerful "Discussion" box.

Note: the "Forums >> Topics" structure can be facilitated also by allowing groups to have multiple boxes for each content type (from another suggestion on top of this page). In other words, by having multiple boxes for the discussions, we can have the "Forum >> Topics" structure.