What is the office and staffing structure of Greenpeace Foundation?
Except for accounting and corporate recordkeeping, it is utterly decentralized across the nation, with little to no paid staff at any given time, overseen by board and advisors whose personal experience is rooted decades back in the origin of the Greenpeace movement . Over the decades we discovered that large staffs tend to perpetuate themselves at the expense of the issues; and paying for that staff overhead can become the driving force in your fundraising. Pretty soon, fundraising is the #1 priority, the entrenched administrative staff are #2, and the campaigns are a distant third. We’ve seen it happen too many times to too many groups. We rejected that model, and we like the results. With electronic mail linking volunteers across the planet, we find we can be very effective indeed.
