The Networked Nonprofit

Fine and Kanter laid out the traditional model of how an organization works: Staff works in silos within the institutional walls in order to achieve the goal, with very little input or aid beyond dollars coming from outside those walls. “Too many organizations are fortresses,” Fine said. “They have high walls and wide moats. And their organizing principles are about keeping insiders in and outsiders out. They are fear-based organizations that spend an enormous amount of time worried about control — trying to control the message and messengers, controlling strategy, controlling their donors as if they could still do those things.