Creating a bounded space to brainstorm with many people from the movement, then having a small core team narrow down the ideas; emphasizing the power of small decision-making teams and the importance of large open conversations for generating ideas; redesigning the hub structure by assessing what worked, why it worked, and addressing challenges faced by hubs in engaging members with varying time commitments; involving hubs in the design process to fix problems and gather feedback to create a revised hub structure.
The relationship between structure and impact is an important one for organizations to explore. The same goes for social movements. The Sunrise Movement is a youth-led coalition on a mission to stop climate change—and recently, they placed their own OS under a microscope: How should the org make decisions? How should its principles evolve? How could it balance centralization and decentralization? Sunrise asked itself these questions to help design a structure capable of meeting our current climate moment.
In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans chat with Aru Shiney-Ajay and Dejah Powell from Sunrise Movement about the connection between internal and external change and how org design can help contribute to tackling the climate crisis.
Learn more about Sunrise Movement's principles: https://www.sunrisemovement.org/principles/?ms=Sunrise%27sPrinciples
Learn more about Sunrise Movement's DNA: https://www.sunrisemovement.org/campaign/sunrise-re-launch/
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