Building Constellation-Based Partnerships
A Tool for Multi-Organizational Collaboration in the Social Mission Sector
By Tonya Surman Jun 20 2006

The Constellation model is a complexity-inspired governance framework for multi-organizational collaboration. It is a way of organizing a group of interested parties to meet a need without having to create a new organization to ‘hold’ the issue. It is a tool to help us recognize and become conscious designers in a complex ecosystem of organizational collaboration. This article describes the model in greater detail, however, it is still a work in progress and new versions of this document will be forthcoming.

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