UNEARTHING ep.1: Organizations and Organisms with Ben Chin

Hi friends. Welcome to Unearthing: Our chats with organizers, leaders, and teachers about the powerful tools they’ve created to build justice. I’m Nico Chin, founder of Up With Community in Lewiston, Maine. We help people learn better together.

In season one, Brass Tacks, I interviewed change makers to understand their achievements and challenges. In this season, Unearthing, and it'll be a little different. We're taking pieces of media and mining them for key insights. We’ll chat with the creators of these tools to explore why they created them, how they are being used in the world, and how you might use them in your work.

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For the inaugural episode of our second season, Unearthing, my husband Ben and I will be diving deeper into topics relevant to organizing and organizations: How they self structure, whether and how they adapt to crises, how they scale, why they shrink, and what practices they utilize to carry out their missions, among a lot of other nuanced tidbits of history and learning. Today, we're looking at organizations as living organisms.

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