It’s been my experience that while people in EA-aligned orgs usually share a common goal, disagreements about how things should be run, especially between a Board of Directors, and the paid employees of the org, is such that it is generally enough of a problem to be a point in favour of transitioning to structuring NPOs as worker cooperatives to reduce conflict between different vested interests. I believe this would be true of the non-profit sector in general, and not limited to EA. I’m not convinced EA tends to be dramatically better or worse on this front than other movements professionally based in the non-profit sector such that I’d put much stock in the testimony of any one individual on this subject.
It’s been my experience that while people in EA-aligned orgs usually share a common goal, disagreements about how things should be run, especially between a Board of Directors, and the paid employees of the org, is such that it is generally enough of a problem to be a point in favour of transitioning to structuring NPOs as worker cooperatives to reduce conflict between different vested interests. I believe this would be true of the non-profit sector in general, and not limited to EA. I’m not convinced EA tends to be dramatically better or worse on this front than other movements professionally based in the non-profit sector such that I’d put much stock in the testimony of any one individual on this subject.