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Organizing roles and teams

Recommended roles and teams structure for activist movements and nonprofits
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Last update: Apr 6, 2025
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Having well-defined roles helps your movement members collaborate. Below are some suggestions for ways of organising using teams and roles.

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Finding your role

A circular diagram, with shared values of equity, liberation, justice and solidarity embodied in the yellow circle in the middle, and ten roles that people and organizations often show up in when they are participating in social change efforts around the outside in different coloured circles.

Social Change Ecosystem Map, by Deepa Iyer (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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