Building, nurturing and championing

How do we go about building, nurturing, and championing people-first organisations? What strategies can we employ? How do we design toward them?

With our vision for people first organisations in mind, this section moves on to explaining how we - as Elsewhere - are working towards our mission. First let’s revisit the statement:

“At Elsewhere, we firmly believe in the power of people-first organisations. We believe that by building, nurturing, and championing people-first organisations we can foster a virtuous cycle of positive outcomes that benefit not only ourselves, but also the organisations we collaborate with, their customers and employees, and the wider community. Ultimately, our humble aim is to enhance the quality of life for the communities around us.”

This section focuses on: “building, nurturing, and championing people-first organisations”.

Building people first organisations

We are committed to taking action and demonstrating that people-first organisations are not only possible, but essential. We believe that there aren’t enough people first organisations and we want to create more of them. We do this by:

• First and foremost we want to lead by example by following the strategies we recommend to others. Elsewhere in our eyes strives to be the ultimate people-first organisation that others can learn from.

• Secondly we want to create our own people-first organisations. If we see an opportunity to create a new organisation that can benefit the communities around us then we will. Setting that organisation up with all the strategies of people first organisations that we have outlined

• Thirdly we want to fund and help funders to channel resources towards people first organisations. We use our knowledge and experience to help guide where and how people first organisations are funded and how that money should be spent, helping to minimise risk and further people-first organisations

Nurturing people first organisations

We want to create more people first organisations, but we also know that there are plenty of people out there already doing it. We want to help them by providing the knowledge and skills necessary to help them further their purpose and impact.

• We want to dedicate our employees to working with people first organisations where they have the need for additional resource and knowledge

• We want to connect talented organisations, freelancers and contractors in our community with people first organisations that require their expertise

• We want to bring together like-minded individuals within our community who share similar aims and knowledge.

Championing people first organisations

As much as we focus on action as the way to demonstrate and learn what people-first organisations are, we also realise the importance of sharing what we are doing and what we have done in order to advocate for more people-first organisations and find others with a similar mindset to use.

• Making publicly available the good the bad and the ugly of what we do and how we do it

• Promoting and educating on the wider community on people first organisations