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Sharing Power

We launched this series of posts in September 2019 to share our journey of moving from a traditional hierarchical nonprofit to a worker self-directed nonprofit. Over the years, we have shared important milestones and our experiences. We continue to learn by doing, and envision this series to be a companion to the formal policies we share in our work with organizations. We hope that by opening up this transition it might help others take the first steps towards sharing power in their workplaces.
By Susan Grove
01.20.23
“If you’re someone who tends to not speak a lot, please move up into a role of speaking more. If you tend to speak a lot, please move up into a role of listening more.” - The AORTA Cooperative
by Hélène Lesterlin, with Susan Grove
03.31.21
We’re not human resources. In fact, we don’t even want to imagine ourselves as “resources” at [...]
by Caitlin Dourmashkin, with Aja Schmeltz & Susan Grove
03.18.21
One of the most important aspects of our transition to a Worker Self-Directed Nonprofit has been [...]
By Micah, with Susan Grove
03.10.21
Working as a part of a shared leadership team has impacted my life in more ways [...]
by Susan Grove
02.23.21
Shared leadership. Sharing power. Someone recently asked me what checks and balances the WSDNP model has [...]
by Terri Hall, with Caitlin Dourmashkin
02.17.21
Shortly after GWI began transitioning into becoming a worker self-directed nonprofit mid-2019, one of [...]
by Hélène Lesterlin, with Susan Grove
02.09.21
I needed that. It released something. We were in an all-hands meeting, and the relatively [...]
by Terri Hall
02.03.21
2021 is underway. Like you, we continue to forge our way forward through this pandemic landscape[...]
by Aja Schmeltz, with Micah
02.03.21
Transition does not happen without discomfort. As Good Work Institute (GWI) navigated the transition from a traditional [...]
by Susan Grove, with her Co-EDs
01.01.21
First a story: We had limited time to meet for the purpose of drafting a budget [...]
By Hélène Lesterlin, with Susan Grove
03.03.20
At Good Work Institute, we organize our collaborative work into “Circles”. Circles function as sub-groups [...]
By Terri Hall, with Caitlin Dourmashkin
02.18.20
At GWI, we have done away with roles that place each person on a hierarchical scale [...]

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