Others express the fundamental importance of organizational development work via its role in helping organizations weather transition and change. Speaking of the merger process through which the North Carolina Justice and Community Development Center (the Justice Center) was created, Greg Malhoit, its executive director, noted: “The Babcock OD grant provided the focus and resources needed to guide the two groups through a systematic process that transformed potential ruin for two groups into the creation of a new and dynamic model nonprofit that is being touted as the ‘new paradigm’ for anti-poverty advocacy at the state level.”