Organisational design and restructuring for nonprofits
Your structure is creating bottlenecks and duplicating effort — nobody is sure who is accountable for what, and the organisation is holding itself back.
What you'll achieve
A purposeful, efficient organisational structure that supports your strategy, clarifies accountability, and enables your team to work at its best.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Analyse your current structure against your strategic needs, facilitate leadership and staff sessions to surface what is and isn't working, and design and stress-test new structural options.
Key deliverables
- Current state analysis, structural options appraisal, recommended design, updated organogram, revised role profiles, change communication guide.
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From the resource library
Free tools and guides to get started
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The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change
A do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators who help organisations develop in healthier and more human ways. Written by a collective of development practitioners, it covers how to read an organisation, how to facilitate change, leadership, relationships, power and building a learning organisation. A library of downloadable exercises, readings, case studies and diagrams sits on the Barefoot website. Facilitators use it to plan OD processes and run sessions with teams.
Start hereClassicKey manual or guideFree - 1.2C008
Bridgespan Organizational Effectiveness Framework survey
An online team survey on Org360 that runs a Bridgespan-based organisational assessment for nonprofits. It has 85 questions and takes about 34 minutes. Areas include strategic clarity, governance, financial sustainability, and diversity, equity and inclusion, with rating questions and open reflection questions. Leaders, board members and staff respond, and Org360 produces an automatic report with strengths, gaps and a development plan. It is free to use after sign-up.
Start hereEmergingTool or templateFree with sign-upNonprofit Builder tool
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