CAN Leadership Framework
CAN Leadership Framework
This discussion is about the structure and functions of CAN. Our intention is for people to understand how CAN operates including the variety of Leadership Roles within the network and the rights and responsibilities that come with each role.
1. CAN Board of Directors
We have a Board of Directors that has a Board Chair, Treasurer, and Secretary with terms lasting one year. Our board meetings are open to members to attend. For decision-making purposes all CAN members have a voice and for voting purposes only board members have a vote on those matters that are voted on by the board.
CAN Board Members have a legal and a “spiritual” responsibility for CAN. Board members hold each other accountable for practicing compassionate action as well as doing their best to collectively source the higher purpose of CAN and navigate with that in mind.
2. CAN Groups
CAN serves a variety of different groups -- there are groups that can be defined as communities of practice, communities of interest, and communities of place. There are groups focused on specific projects and there are support groups that are core to the functions of CAN (i.e. CAN Leadership, CAN Communications). There are also CAN Sector Groups that address the areas of focus that the CAN Board has declared.
Each CAN group has a moderator responsible to the members of the group; to keep members informed, and to keep the group's content up to date.
3. CAN Advisers
CAN Leadership also includes a network of CAN Advisers in a variety of areas including art, culture, creativity, business, community groups, education and academia, faith and interfaith, foundations, government agencies, media, networks/coalitions/alliances, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, student groups, UN organizations.
CAN advisers lend their name to CAN and offer their feedback on leadership topics. We ask that advisers be members of the CAN Leadership group and offer their input on an ad-hoc basis.
4. CAN Staff
CAN Leadership also includes CAN Staff including paid and volunteer positions. The Executive Director is responsible to the members of the Board.
5. CAN Members
CAN Leadership also includes Members welcome to bring themselves forth as part of the leadership structure. CAN members are aligned with the mission and the principles of CAN and declare so when they sign up.
Does this make sense to you? What is not clear? Thanks for your input!
This discussion is about the structure and functions of CAN. Our intention is for people to understand how CAN operates including the variety of Leadership Roles within the network and the rights and responsibilities that come with each role.
1. CAN Board of Directors
We have a Board of Directors that has a Board Chair, Treasurer, and Secretary with terms lasting one year. Our board meetings are open to members to attend. For decision-making purposes all CAN members have a voice and for voting purposes only board members have a vote on those matters that are voted on by the board.
CAN Board Members have a legal and a “spiritual” responsibility for CAN. Board members hold each other accountable for practicing compassionate action as well as doing their best to collectively source the higher purpose of CAN and navigate with that in mind.
2. CAN Groups
CAN serves a variety of different groups -- there are groups that can be defined as communities of practice, communities of interest, and communities of place. There are groups focused on specific projects and there are support groups that are core to the functions of CAN (i.e. CAN Leadership, CAN Communications). There are also CAN Sector Groups that address the areas of focus that the CAN Board has declared.
Each CAN group has a moderator responsible to the members of the group; to keep members informed, and to keep the group's content up to date.
3. CAN Advisers
CAN Leadership also includes a network of CAN Advisers in a variety of areas including art, culture, creativity, business, community groups, education and academia, faith and interfaith, foundations, government agencies, media, networks/coalitions/alliances, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, student groups, UN organizations.
CAN advisers lend their name to CAN and offer their feedback on leadership topics. We ask that advisers be members of the CAN Leadership group and offer their input on an ad-hoc basis.
4. CAN Staff
CAN Leadership also includes CAN Staff including paid and volunteer positions. The Executive Director is responsible to the members of the Board.
5. CAN Members
CAN Leadership also includes Members welcome to bring themselves forth as part of the leadership structure. CAN members are aligned with the mission and the principles of CAN and declare so when they sign up.
Does this make sense to you? What is not clear? Thanks for your input!
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Permalink Reply by anne morgan stadler on -
I would add that the Board is legally and spiritually responsible for CAN. By "spiritually" I mean, Board members hold each other accountable for practicing compassionate action as well as do their best to collectively source the higher purpose of CAN and navigate with that in mind.
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Permalink Reply by Jon Ramer on -
This is great Anne. I have incorporated this and other expressions of "rights and responsibilities" for each membership role. Hugs!
anne morgan stadler said:I would add that the Board is legally and spiritually responsible for CAN. By "spiritually" I mean, Board members hold each other accountable for practicing compassionate action as well as do their best to collectively source the higher purpose of CAN and navigate with that in mind. -
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Permalink Reply by Sahila ChangeBringer on
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I wonder if you have considered alternative forms of organisation, such as empty-centred leadership and true consensus decision making...
I used to work with Reworking Tomorrow/Australia Connects on issues of sustainable community/society/economy, and we worked with Robert Theobald http://www.indra.com/transform/tlc/rtpage.html and with ideas from Meg Wheatley and the Berkana Institute...http://berkana.org/berkana/index.php?option=com_content&task=ca...
If we want to change the future, might we also not want to change the way we organise institutions, including CAN?
Another thought I had when I was reading the Compassionate Cities documents is that there is (to me) a glaring omission in the list of people/institutions this campaign is aimed at. And that omission is the business world and our economy.
Surely the way we do business and the way the economy is structured is a major source of the lack of compassion in our society? The system (which is only a set of beliefs/attitudes supported and enabled by a critical mass of people and so is infinitely mutable) is organised in such a way that many people fear for their economic (and thus physical) security, and are so concerned with survival issues that they dont have the time and space to look around them and be compassionate towards others.
I think we are living within a giant capitalist pyramid-ponzie scheme; the promise of the 'trickle down effect' payoff for many of the world's people never will materialise. I think Paul Krugman said that if the entire world were to live to the level of excess we in the West insist on, we would need the resources of five or six planet Earths. And those at the top of the pyramid wont move over to share what they control with those attempting to claw their way up from the middle and the bottom. Its not sustainable - we keep falling into depression/recession and we are watching numerous life forms being forced into extinction, its exploitative and its an evolutionary deadend, seeing this planet (energetically and its resources) is a closed system.
I'm interested in the idea of Triple Bottom Line Accounting - People, Planet, Profit... a movement that has some adherents in Europe, here in the US and in Australia, and I wonder if we could bring to bear some focus on this idea with business leaders in our city.... perhaps this would be a good place to start changing our world to a more economically sustainable one... and with a more sound economic model operating, perhaps people would have more space/heart/time to be more compassionate with themselves and their communities? -
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