Our Structure

As a member driven organization, it is our individual member organizations who have the full formal power over the GRCA. Members elect the board of directors through a process implemented by the Nominations Committee, a member-elected body. The Nominations Committee is tasked with creating a slate of board of directors that are representative of our membership. This slate of nominees is voted and put into place by our members. The board of directors carries out the work of the GRCA and ensures the organization remains in good financial standing.

In the beginning, the GRCA board of directors had structured its work using committees. For the past few years, the board has opted to operate in a project-based structure.

The Executive Committee has been dissolved to remove the perception of hierarchies within the GRCA, and to strengthen our commitment to transparency and horizontal leadership. In place of committees, our work is now organized into five “themes” that board members coordinate. Within each theme, there are various projects that our board - and membership - can participate in.

Theme Coordination Teams

Programming:

The work to provide programming for membership, including everything that is related to the annual GRCA Conference, including conference planning, resources, programming, location, and logistics.

Member Network:

All of the work that connects our members to one another and connects our members to the GRCA network as a whole. 

Operations and Infrastructure:

The work that relates to maintaining the organization’s operational structure, our history, and our accountability as organizers both to the movement as well as to each other. 

Outreach:

The work of communicating our movement to outside of the membership, and maintaining regular and up-to-date digital communications.   

Sustaining the Movement:

The work of making the GRCA movement sustainable through tracking activities, creating and maintaining strategic and tactical plans, and finding creative ways to fund our work.