If we are not prepared to govern, we are not prepared to win
<p>Several years ago, when I first read <a href="https://movementgeneration.org/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Movement Generations</a>’ Just Transition zine, <a href="https://movementgeneration.org/justtransition/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong><em>From Banks and Tanks to Caring and Cooperation</em></strong></a><strong><em>,</em></strong> this line really stood out to me: “If we are not prepared to govern, we are not prepared to win.” Back then, I interpreted governance as being relevant to the domains of our communities, cities, counties, state and nation. While workplace is referenced later in the passage, I only imagined this to apply to for-profit corporations, and didn’t pause long enough to think about how it could apply to my own nonprofit organization.</p>
<p>Fast forward to the present day. <strong>As </strong><a href="http://justicefunders.org/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Justice Funders</strong></a><strong> becomes its own 501(c)3, we are intentionally building an organization whose culture and structure embody the values and principles of Just Transition including shared leadership, democratic decision-making and self-governance. </strong>This is the result of an 18-month long organizational development journey that involved both self-reflection as a staff as well as insights from our stakeholders who participated in a 10th anniversary evaluation project to identify our strengths, assess our contributions and offer recommendations for how to have the greatest impact moving forward.</p>
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