The Small Charity Bunfight!

About this episode

This episode discusses a controversy in the UK charity sector regarding organizational leadership and member influence.

Send us Fan Mail This week on Association Transformation, we’re unpacking another UK controversy: members can ask hard questions about outcomes and value, but they don’t get to design the org chart. Instead of letting leadership lead, parts of the charity sector has jumped straight to a public “bun fight" with one of its membership organisations (the NCVO), including open letters, outside pressure, and a not-so-subtle attempt to dictate how the organization should staff itself. Elisa and Andr...

People in this episode

Guests: Elisa, Andr

Topics covered

• charity sector
• organizational structure
• membership organizations
• public controversy
• leadership

Keywords

• charity
• NCVO
• organizational design
• membership
• public pressure

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NCVO

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