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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 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 [...]
By Caitlin Dourmashkin
02.11.20
That which we call a Director by any other name would still have meaning.
By Caitlin Doumashkin with Terri Hall
02.04.20
Over the next few weeks, we will be posting specifically about roles in a Worker Self-Directed [...]
GWI Team
12.03.19
Thank you to everyone who has been following GWI’s blog series on our journey of transitioning [...]
by Terri Hall, with Susan Grove
11.05.19
The path we travel toward Just Transition is not well-worn. GWI is invested in playing [...]
by Caitlin Dourmashkin, with Susan Grove
10.29.19
On May 1st of this year, GWI began the long and involved transition to becoming a [...]
by Caitlin Dourmashkin, with Terri Hall and Susan Grove
10.22.19
Now that we’ve told you about our circle policy and practice, it is time to introduce [...]
by Aja Schmeltz, with Susan Grove
10.16.19
When I was a kid, I remember my entire family gathering in my Grandmother’s living room [...]

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