Danielle Withrow, a volunteer consultant with Building Community, believes the governance structure of the organization “breaks the paradigm of most nonprofits” in a number of ways: 1) by taking the name “board of leaders” vs. board of directors; 2) by developing a leadership team within that board vs. naming individual officers; 3) by organizing members into work groups structured around the organization’s core interest areas vs. establishing the more traditional committee structure; and, finally, 4) by contracting for services vs. hiring an executive director and other staff in order to maintain its all-volunteer structure and keep the power in the hands of the citizen leaders who are its core.