The Charismatic Organization


Any nonprofit can become a charismatic organization. The authors are available as consultants, speakers, and workshop facilitators to teach you how.

About the Authors: Co-authors Shirley Sagawa and Deborah Jospin are the principals of sagawa/jospin, a consulting firm specializing in nonprofit strategy and policy. Since the beginning of their partnership in 2001, they have worked with over 45 organizations, including national nonprofits (including America’s Promise, Save the Children, and YouthBuild USA), grassroots community based organizations, social entrepreneurs, foundations (including the Clinton and Annie E. Casey Foundations), for-profit companies, the Harvard Institute of Politics, and the on-line magazine Slate.

Shirley is also a visiting fellow at the Center for American Progress, and former Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Chief of Staff to the First Lady during the Clinton Administration, founding Executive Director of the Learning First Alliance, and the founding Managing Director of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). Her previous award-winning book, Common Interest, Common Good: Creating Value through Business and Social Sector Partnerships (Harvard Business School Press, 2000) describes how business and social sector organizations can collaborate for mutual gain. Shirley Sagawa was named a “Woman to Watch in the 21st Century,” by Newsweek magazine, and one of the “Most Influential Working Mothers in America” by Working Mother magazine.

Deb served as the first Director of AmeriCorps as well as Chief of Staff and Deputy General Counsel of CNCS. Prior to joining CNCS, Deb was an attorney in private practice. Deb is President of the Daniel A. Dutko Memorial Foundation, which supports the Dutko Fellowship program at Tufts University, enabling Tufts graduates who are interested in public policy management to spend ten months in Washington, D.C., working in politics or for a nonprofit organization. She also chairs the Board of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts, and serves as a member of the Tufts Board of Trustees.