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Write your Resolution

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Help your organization live what it decides.

Resolving takes minutes and belongs to each person. Responding takes months and belongs to the organization. It happens in the Map, where your organization does the work and keeps what the work produces.

The Map is free. Beginning gives no one authority, and nothing is adopted until the people who decide adopt it.

Riverbend Youth & Family · the Map · sample

  1. Trailhead9 Resolutions in
  2. 1 · The charterRatified · review March
  3. 2 · The organization’s contextIn progress
  4. 3 · FormationStarts in January
  5. 4 · Build only what belongs2 decided early
  6. 5 · Review what changesFirst review in March
Progress is shown by what each stage has produced. There are no percentages.

It begins at the trailhead

Before anything is decided, the Map shows four things. One person can set it up alone in a few minutes. The rest fills in as your people arrive.

What your people are saying

Strong agreement, real differences and questions to decide, from their Resolutions. Counts only, once five have written theirs.

Who carries this

Three to five people, ideally someone with authority, someone who knows how the work happens and someone close to the people you serve.

Who decides

Who can sign, who ratifies, who advises and who must be consulted. Work can start before these names are known. Nothing is adopted until they are.

What is actually happening

The Reality Assessment. Your leaders predict, your people answer anonymously, and you see the gap.

Five stages. Each leaves you with something you keep.

Any stage can be opened at any time. The order is the advice: what you stand for sets the limits on what you gather, both shape what your people practice and what you decide to build, and each review brings you back around.

  1. Stage 1. Decide what you will stand for

    A charter in five parts: what you believe, what people may and may not do, what is true here now, how systems and people work together day to day, and what happens when something goes wrong. Your people’s Resolutions are its first draft. Your leaders sign it and your board ratifies it.

    Produces: the charter

    See a real charter

    Policy · clause 4

    No one may enter a young person’s case notes, health information or anything told in confidence into any AI tool.

    Executive director
    Board chair

  2. Stage 2. Gather what should ground the work

    What your organization knows, how its work actually happens and who the work depends on, gathered mostly through interviews and kept within the limits your charter sets. This is where the method becomes architecture.

    Produces: the organization’s context

    See a real context list
    Program curriculum, 2019 to nowGathered
    Grant reporting, mapped from 3 interviewsGathered
    Case notesKept out by charter clause 4

  3. Stage 3. Practice the judgment your people will need

    Your people practice judgment together on real work, led by someone inside your organization who has been formed to keep it going. What they find goes back into the charter and the context.

    Produces: formed people, and an ambassador who keeps it going

    See the courses

    AI for Nonprofit Teams · week 3 of 8

    This week: draft one grant narrative with AI, then mark every sentence you would not sign.

    30 to 40 minutes alone · 90 minutes together · led by Dana, Riverbend’s ambassador

  4. Stage 4. Build only what belongs

    You weigh each possible use for mission value, trust and readiness, then pursue it, keep it simple, defer it or refuse it. Only what you decided to pursue gets built, with its sources, its limits and the person who answers for it written down. Refusal is a real decision, and it is written into the charter.

    Produces: decisions, and the tools that follow

    See real decisions
    Draft grant report narrativesPursue carefully
    Summarize program surveysSolve simply
    Draft donor thank-you notesDeferred
    Answer parents automatically after hoursRefused

  5. Stage 5. Review what changes

    Everything in the Map has a review date: the charter on a set rhythm, the context as it changes, formation each cohort, and each tool as it runs. A review records what you looked at, what changed and what you decided, so you can always see why a decision held or changed.

    Produces: a review record

    See a real review

    Review record · winter 2027

    Decision
    Draft grant report narratives
    Evidence
    Two reporting cycles, a staff check-in, one draft corrected before signing
    Outcome
    Affirmed · Policy 4 revised
    Next review
    June 2027

Choosing not to counts

Any part of the method can be marked “chosen not to,” with your reason, and that is recorded as a decision. The Map can say once what a refusal may cost. Then it respects it.

The guidebook is beside you

The whole method is public, in editions for churches, nonprofits and institutions. Inside the Map the same text sits next to each stage. The guidebook explains how. The Map is where you do it.

Read the guidebook

Every sentence shows where it came from

Each Map has an agent grounded in your own material. It drafts, explains and checks. It never adopts, signs or ratifies. Every line it drafts is marked by origin, so your leaders can see what came from your people, what came from the guidebook, and what is still theirs to decide.

Charter · Statement · draft

We will keep the moments of care human.

From your people’s Resolutions · 7 of 9

Staff already use four AI tools at work, two of them personal accounts.

Sourced fact · Reality Assessment, October

Name one person who answers for each approved tool.

Guidebook recommendation · Charter, section 3

Where should the time AI saves go?

Needs a human decision · your people divide 4 to 5

The method is free. Help making it hold is paid.

The Map, its templates and the guidebook cost nothing, and a capable team can do the work on its own. Organizations pay us when they want help with the hard parts: facilitating the charter, gathering context at scale, formation, building what they decide to build, and stewarding it over time. Paid work only ever follows a decision your organization made.

Work with Movemental

Turn conviction into shared work.

Invite your people to resolve, name who carries the work and who decides, and see what is actually happening. That creates your organization’s Map.

Begin your organization’s response

Haven’t written your own Resolution yet? Start there. About four minutes.