The typical social justice organization spends 80% of its budget on people, but management often gets left behind amidst other pressing concerns. MAG helps organizations to build the skills of managers, define effective structures and decision-making processes, create inclusive environments that maximize the contributions of each member, and build internal cultures that reflect the core social justice values of fairness, integrity, and respect.

Our services include:

• Clarifying roles, responsibilities, and decision-making
• Building cohesion, communication, and teamwork  
• Restructuring staff and management
• Strengthening supervision
• Increasing inclusiveness and cultural competence
• Enhancing budgeting and financial management
• Providing customized management workshops

Client Testimony

"MAG is always available with keen insights on new structural or management issues that arise. Much of NRDC’s current institutional health and well being can be attributed directly to our work with MAG." -Frances Beinecke, Natural Resources Defense Council
 
"MAG helped senior managers put some sensitive and complicated issues on the table in a safe way so that we could solve them and work together better as a team…Thanks to MAG, we were able to get to the real work – improvement – far more quickly." -Ericka Miller, Education Trust
 
"The managing people workshop realigned us – we’re here to serve our clients and if our staff aren’t doing that, than we need to manage our staff better." -Alicia Wilson, La Clínica del Pueblo