Managing Growth, Opportunity, and Business Activities: Complex Organizational Structures and Why and When to Use Them

Complex Organizational Structure36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute, Austin, Texas, 01/18/2019

Understanding the reasons for utilizing a more complex structure and the options available can be pivotal to an organization in fulfilling its mission.  This paper and presentation examine the options that can be utilized to build a more complex organizational structure to manage growth, opportunity, and business activities of a nonprofit organization, including an outline of reasons to create a more complex structure, an overview of and considerations for common entities utilized along with their key attributes, and guidance on managing the relationship between the parent entity and its subsidiaries including the importance of maintaining appropriate separateness.