The Ops Lab

A place for liberatory ops nerds to come together to create community, solve problems, and dream up better futures. ✨

The Ops Lab is a space for:

  • Building community among radical and progressive operations professionals

  • Wrestling with the tension of operating within "traditional systems", white supremacist culture, and the non profit industrial complex

  • Slowing down and dreaming about our collective futures

  • Learning, development, evolution, and growth

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Who we are

We are more than our titles of “operations manager/director/
associate”, we are 

Artists 
Care takers 
Creators 
Communicators
Inventors 
Scientists 
Explorers 
Archivists 
Historians 
Engineers 
Dreamers 
Translators 
Tricksters

This space is for people who

Have worked in operations for 1+ years and/or plan for a career in operations 

  • Open to both folks in permanent ops roles within organizations, as well as consultants with an operations practice 

Are committed to shared values of: 

  • The dismantling of white supremacy

  • Anti-capitalism

  • Shared liberation

  • Strategic risk - assuming risk where necessary to challenge the status quo 

  • Redistribution of power, knowledge, and resources 

  • Rest & Sustainability 

  • Collaboration and community

What does it mean to be a member of The Lab

  • Quarterly 90 min gatherings (topics will be sourced from the community)

  • Community Slack and Signal groups

  • Access to The Ops Collective for 2 hours of annual coaching (two 1-hour sessions, or four, 30-min sessions)

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How The Lab can be used

Solve Problems, Seek Advice, and Gather Resources

This is a space where you can ask questions, seek advice, or gather resources this will include on-demand access to Ops Collective knowledge and resources

Brainstorm and dream about new ways of building and implementing structures.

This can include policies and processes around compensation, performance, benefits, budgeting, governance, communications, culture building, etc.

Build a support network.

Operations work can be lonely and isolating, this is a space for us to build relationships and community to support each other in this work.

What and who this space is NOT for

  • People who are brand new to operations and do not have a long term commitment to operations 

  • People who do not share the same values stated above 

  • People who are concerned about compliance above all else, or who are unwilling to challenge the status quo 

  • People who are only interested in the transactional nature of work

  • People who are unwilling to share and collaborate, and instead, gatekeep information

Membership Fees

These are annual membership fees. After you pay once, you will always have access to the slack and signal group spaces, but future annual fees are required for participation in gatherings, and to have access to Ops Collective coaching hours. Payment plans can be set up as needed, please just reach out to us - we don’t want anyone who needs the space to be excluded from it!

76 - Our Services

  • If you are sponsored by an organization:

    Solidarity: $500

    For organizations with annual budgets up to $500,000

    Full Cost: $750

    For organizations with annual budgets between $500,000 and $3 million

    Redistribution: $1,000

    For organizations with annual budgets above $3 million

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  • If you do not have financial support from an organization, we ask that you pay what you can:

    Solidarity: $200

    Full Cost: $350

    Redistribution: $500

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