The goal of this project is to explain how to set up and maintain transparent, diverse, accountable and truly participative organizations or communities, focusing on elaborating a concrete framework for action called "Open Organizations". This framework:

• is in a large part the result of observing and distilling the patterns, or processes, in the functioning of existing organizations.
• is a functional organizational structure, since it is developing according to the understanding that theory and practice rely on each other.
• is modular, people can choose to adopt in part or whole.
• can be used to as a tool to analyse other organizations.
• does not pretend to be the only one model, nor suitable to all organizations who subscribe to values that it promotes, but it can be a valid alternative for some.

http://www.open-organizations.org

To whomever filled out this page, thank you so much. If you see the note at the end of NonProfit a la CreativeCommons, I had a similar idea, but I can see you're already on top of it. I'll poke around some more rather than reinvent the wheel, as some of us had already started doing. -- SunirShah