Organizational Structure
Noolaham Foundation is a community digital library and a community digital archive. Community leadership, stewardship and ownership are key organizing principles for the organization. Noolaham Foundation encourages a collaborative-leadership framework whereby contributors lead one another to achieve organizational and community goals. We steward community resources consciously to support social justice and knowledge based community development of all the communities we serve.
All of Noolaham Foundation ongoing activities have been organized into sectors, and sectors into processes. In addition, Noolaham Foundation undertakes time bound projects. Each process and project with the exception of governance, governance board meeting, and resource mobilization processes are managed by staff. Volunteers in Sri Lankan and diaspora contribute to processes and projects as process/project mentors, subject matter experts and contributors. Staff and volunteers of a process or project together consist of the team for that process or project. A Processed/Project Based Management (PBM) has been adopted to effectively manage Noolaham endeavors to serve the community needs. Currently, there are seven sectors and forty five processes.
Sector 00: Governance, Policy and Strategy
Sector 01: Organizational Management and Operations
Sector 02: Program and Projects
Sector 03: Digital Processing and Preservation
Sector 04: Digital Library, Archive and Information Services
Sector 05: Technology Infrastructure and Development
Sector 06: Finance, Human Resources and Administration
Sector 07: Advocacy, Communications and Public Relations
The Governance Board is the primary decision making body for Noolaham Foundation. It consults with Gray Board, Advisory Pool, Management, Staff as well as other stakeholders as needed to direct Noolaham Foundation activities.
In addition to volunteers and staff, Noolaham Foundation relies on and answerable to the wider Noolaham Foundation Community. The wider Noolaham Community consists of Content Contributors, Source Contributors, Donors, Supporters, and Users.
Further details about Chapters, governing bodies etc are discussed in the following chapters.
