Sustaining Your Work

Structure your group

• Organizational Structure: An Overview

  Giving your group some sort of organizational framework can add consistency to your work. This section of The Community Tool Box addresses the importance of creating structure, provides an overview on the important elements of structure, as well as descriptions of different organizational models.

• Decision Making Structures

  This resource, prepared by The Vernal Education Project, provides visual representations and descriptions of the various decision-making structures an organization can use.

• Group Structure

  This resource from Citizen Works provides a comparison of different models of organization and decision-making that community groups can employ, including networks, cooperatives, collectives, traditional structure, and coalitions.

• Decision-making Structure

  Womanshare is a cooperative skill bank in New York City. This section of their website describes the development of their decision-making structure since inception and into the present and provides a general overview of how the group is structured.