Hi Juliette. Thanks for posting - so pleased to have you in the community! Would love to hear more about your work with democratic enterprises when you have time to share
Hello! I’m Kim Stiens, I’ve been doing nonprofit operations work in the US for around 10 years now. Right now, my day job is with a macroeconomic policy org called Employ America, and I do contract gigs with a couple smaller orgs as well (including a fantastic international legal empowerment group called Namati). I’ve worked in cannabis policy, media, management consulting, and fast food before all that (ask me what my last fast food job taught me about values!)
Right now I’m working with the fantastic folks at CANOE Collective to professionalize some of our ops at EA, and I’m finishing up a personal project - a Nonprofit Operations 101 training video. Excited to share here when it’s done!
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Welcome to the community, @kstiens!
I’ll go for the hook! What did your last fast food job teach you about values? (Am legit very curious!)
Also keen to see your Nonprofit Operations 101 video, when it’s ready!
Hey - I’m Laura - and I’m part of the yoga teachers union, IWGB and also work for a bike coop! Really excited to see all of these radical policies coming together in one place! This is an incredible resource. Thank you! 
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Welcome @LauraH! Sounds like an interesting mix of groups, in terms of thinking about policies and processes in very different contexts! Are there any particular questions or themes you’re thinking about in any of these spaces right now?
Hello hello, I’m Doug 
I got to hear about radHR from a friend who’s with the Free and Open-Source Content circle of Sociocracy for All. Amazing work you’ve done here so far, all of you!
I flirted with housing and workers coops when I was on the UK. In Germany I’ve been meandering through free software, decentralized tech, activisms and commons, eventually co-founding a house/center for people working towards the common good.
Governance, through the lense of the commons work done by Ostrom, has been a major topic for me. Seeing loads of groups struggling with the same stuff, a lot of repeated mistakes which don’t bring value… it’s a waste. A major cause seems to be the lack of published resources—something this project takes on! I was working on something to that end before I came across radHR, and I’m happy to share the prototype: https://collectivegovernance.directory/ Curious to know if/how to collaborate, whether radHR completely supercedes my idea, etc 
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Hi there Doug,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to your message! Had a look at the centre you linked to and the collective governance directory. They look amazing. I don’t think RadHR supercedes your idea at all, I think the two sites could complement each other quite well. We’d be well up for a chat about potential ways of collaborating on collecting resources if you’re interested. Feel free to direct message me here or email me at kiran@radhr.org and we can sort something out
Cheers
Kiran
Hi all, I’m Faraz and I work in the People & Culture Team at the Southbank Centre in London. My role covers EDI, L&D, and Internal Comms but not so much the nitty-gritty of HR processes.
I found out about RadHR through a conversation I had at a Palestine March last weekend about how I’m struggling to see how to make radical change in my role. I’m currently working on an organisational values refresh, rolling out People Manager training, and our EDI workshop design. I’m hoping to get more involved in policies in my team and learn about examples of organisations that have UK policies that are still legally compliant but less hierarchical.
I’m very interested in democratic and decentralised structures, and how to make them work in paid employment. I’m happy to have found this site as everyone else who’s introduced themselves have given lots of resources for me to go and explore.
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Hi Faraz,
Thanks for introducing yourself - really glad to have you as part of the RadHR community. I can imagine it can be pretty frustrating, feeling like you can’t see how to create the sort of change you want to in your role, so yeah do please use the site and community to help you work stuff out.
Most of the orgs on here will probably be significantly smaller than the Southbank Centre, so some frameworks or structures might not be directly transferable. But there’ll probably be lots of stuff that’ll still be helpful in thinking about how to create meaningful shifts in who (and whose knowledge) is seen, heard and valued in the org.
Also wondered if you’d heard of the What If Experiment - they do great anti-racist work specifically in medium and large arts organisations…
Hello! I’m Shannon, Director of Operations at a mid-sized US nonprofit called Human Impact Partners. We focus on bringing public health into social justice movements; I am focused on the health of our 25 staff and of our org, to ensure we are effective at advancing health equity and racial justice. I heard about RadHR from an external colleague (I forget who) and then my teammate here also found you and just signed up for the upcoming conflict webinar.
I am here for examples of things we’re already doing/considering, to see if we can make them better, and for ideas for things we are not yet doing. Thanks for creating this website/community, I look forward to learning from one another!
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Hello hello!
My name is Kim and I’m the Admin Director at The Management Center I’m going to be taking on more HR responsibilities and my supervisor directed me to RadHR to connect with other radical HR professionals who put their people first. Grateful to be part of this community!
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Hello,
My name is Veronica and I work at Headwaters Foundation for Justice in Minneapolis, MN. About 2.5 years ago we went through a major internal reckoning but that left in place to start rebuilding a libratory radical organization. We have been doing lots of dreaming but also lots on implementing. We truly are an organization that does some really cool things like unlimited PTO, all staff distributed decision making, phenomenal benefits (we are fortunate to have a very healthy budget).
I am leaning into a new role of People and Culture Manager which encompasses HR so looking to grow and learn from other like minded folx.
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Hello! I’m Veronica - I’m part of the RadHR Core Team and am also co-leading on some of RadHR’s action research work with @kiran .
I realised that I’ve been around for a year(ish) now but actually never introduced myself here! So hi
In terms of what I’m working on / excited about at the moment, we are currently working on a project called ‘Beyond Policies’ - it’s about learning from informal, feminised practices of collective care in groups and organisations where many people have experienced marginalisation and the sharp end of power and inequality; and facilitating sharing and collective support between those groups in ways that feel helpful/appropriate to them.
We are trying to work iteratively and non-extractively as we can, and as part of this we’re sharing a survey to understand which, if any, of the proposed activities feel most useful.
If you or someone you know is keen to share your thoughts or participate in the project, please do fill out the survey!
Otherwise look forward to chatting to you all in the forum 
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Hi everyone.
My name is Kirrin (they/he). I am currently working at NEON (New Economy Organisers Network) part time. I used to be very involved in trans activism but took a few years break for my wellbeing, but I am now starting to get back involved with it.
I used to do a fair amount of work on trans inclusion policies in the workplace, but have really struggled to get jobs within operations or EDI teams and so am looking to do more policy work that is more generalised. From my experience working with young people, and from working in LGBT+ teams that were targets of online and printed media attacks Ive really seen the impact good vs bad policies have in terms of the impact on workers and the people we support.
Currently at work I have taken on extra duties to work on various policies including: safeguarding, social media and sick leave. I really want to approach policies from a perspective of using them to entrench workers rights into organisations, and provide structure for creating workplaces cultures based on restorative justice and anti-oppressive principles.
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hiya! i’m tom.
i’m a teacher at a little alternative school in south london. the school uses sociocracy (consent based decision making in ‘circles’) we’re currently reorganising how we do hr.
we’ve had an hr manager 2 days a week with additional work being done by an agency, and an hr circle which has advised on policy work (tho this has been a bit toothless tbh).
our hr manager is leaving, and we’re not planning to replace them. we’re going to have an agency doing general hr admin, the hr circle deciding policy, and someone being the point person with staff disputes (restorative processes, workload etc).
i’m joining as i’m currently the leader of the hr circle, and really keen to push our policy writing in a more anti-hierarchical, pro-trade union (which our school still won’t recognise), supportive and nurturing direction. i’ve used radhr for policies and guidance before, but may start posting here a bit more as i think i’m going to need a lot of help over the next few months!!
xoxo
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Hi Tom! Great to have you join the forum and hear a bit of background about you. Please do post with any questions or thoughts as they pop up over the next few months - not least because I am really interested in hearing about how you’re managing more care-centred HR practices within the structure of a school (can imagine it is a super tricky balance with Ofsted, national curriculum pressure, etc. etc.), and am sure others in the community will likewise be able to learn from how you + your hr circle are navigating things as they come up.
All the best!
V
Hi Kim, nice to meet you and thank you for introducing yourself! Sorry for the super slow response time - I’d love to hear how you’re getting on with your increased HR responsibilities and am so glad to hear other people are recommending the forum. Look forward to connecting with you soon. V
Michael is my given middle name, which seems more sophisticated than given first name which is Dylan so have chosen Michael as user-name account.
Found you guys from the Discourse Meta site.
Am working on launching construction company in the Seattle region of Washington State + further north to Canada to build little houses and communities.
Not certain what all you guys do, this is "Rad H.R., that stands for “Human Resources?”
Hello I am a part of the Toronto Chinatown Land Trust (so called Canada, Tkaranto Treaty 13).
We’ve been referencing some of the very helpful policy examples that other collectives have uploaded and we hope to add some of our own! Love this website and resource.
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Hi @Chiyi_Tam!
Really glad to hear you’ve found RadHR useful! I’m part of the RadHR core team, but am originally from Parkdale and had bits of involvement with the land trust there, many years ago. So it’s nice to see the links with Tkaronto land trusts popping up here!
Keen to see them, if you get to a point of wanting to share any of your own versions of the policies! Would be really interesting in terms of getting a sense what bits are more and less relevant to orgs there!
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