It was difficult for DRC staff to determine which OD issues it should tackle first. “We
established anti-racism work and fundraising as the two things we had to work on right away. We wanted to get started on strategic planning, but we had to do board development, although we did not call it that at the time. We needed to get people on the board who were invested in the work
of the organization, and the board needed the time necessary to develop familiarity with and ownership of the work . . . . It’s kind of a chicken and egg thing because it is too much for a small organization to do it all at once—for example, to try and do board development and strategic planning at the same time.