Welcome to our new blog series that takes you behind the scenes of Headwaters’ journey to transform our internal structure, policies, and key practices.
Since 2022, we’ve reimagined how our organization operates - from leadership structure to pay. Each change we’ve made has more closely aligned our internal practices with the values we practice in our grantmaking: distributed power and shared decision making.
This series is our way of sharing what we’ve learned, what we’re still figuring out, and the tools we’ve built along the way. Whether your organization is just beginning this kind of work or in the thick of it, we hope these stories spark ideas, affirm your path, and offer practical support as we work to build more resilient, liberatory institutions to guide our movements.
Over the next year, we'll publish stories related to each of our major transformations within the organization. Each installment will be added to this page as they are published. Check back often for the latest installment!
Introduction to Headwaters' Organizational Transformation
What's inside:
- An introduction to the series, including why we're telling our story now
- A preview of the topics and resources to expect
- The story of the beginning of our organizational transformation work, including the challenges
- Takeaways for your organization to learn from
- Small, medium, and large steps you can take right now to start your own transformation journey
Headwaters' Shift to Collective Decision-Making
What's inside:
- Access to Headwaters' full step-by-step collective decision-making guide
- History and background of Headwaters' shift from top-down to team-based decision-making
- Overview of Headwaters' new collective decision-making model
- Description and examples of how we put our decision-making guidelines into practice
- Challenges to decision-making and how we approach them
- Small, medium, and large steps you can take to start exploring and practicing more democratic decision-making in your organization
- Articles and tools that Headwaters used to inform our decision-making shift
Introduction to Headwaters' Organizational Transformation
What's inside:
What's inside:
- An introduction to the series, including why we're telling our story now
- A preview of the topics and resources to expect
- The story of the beginning of our organizational transformation work, including the challenges
- Takeaways for your organization to learn from
- Small, medium, and large steps you can take right now to start your own transformation journey
Headwaters' Shift to Collective Decision-Making
What's inside:
- Access to Headwaters' full step-by-step collective decision-making guide
- History and background of Headwaters' shift from top-down to team-based decision-making
- Overview of Headwaters' new collective decision-making model
- Description and examples of how we put our decision-making guidelines into practice
- Challenges to decision-making and how we approach them
- Small, medium, and large steps you can take to start exploring and practicing more democratic decision-making in your organization
- Articles and tools that Headwaters used to inform our decision-making shift