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Built From Nonprofit Experience, Not Guesswork
We're not a tech company making assumptions about what you need. We've lived this problem from the inside.
We know the frustration of misalignment. We've served as executives and strategy leaders. We've felt the invisible barriers. We've watched talented teams burn out despite working incredibly hard.
When we couldn’t find an organization design system that actually solved the alignment problem for nonprofits, we built one. And we did so with decades of technical expertise and nonprofit leadership experience — not theory, but hard-won wisdom about what actually works.
We're continually refining JOD as we learn more about what is working for our nonprofit partners. Your success (not our feature list) is the measure of whether we are getting it right.
Meet the Founders
Jeanne Bell
Jeanne is co-founder of JustOrg Design and a leading voice in nonprofit organization design. She has consulted on nonprofit strategy and organizational change for over 25 years. Jeanne also curates Nonprofit Quarterly's Leading Edge Program, recruiting and presenting nonprofit practitioners advancing more equitable nonprofit leadership practices. Previously, Jeanne led CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, one of the country's premier leadership and capacity-building organizations. While serving as CEO, Jeanne also chaired the board of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management, a national association of nonprofit capacity builders and academics. She currently serves on the board of Community Works and the advisory board of the Resilience Initiative. She has a Masters in Nonprofit Management from the University of San Francisco. Jeanne loves living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Dan Tucker
Dan is co-founder of JustOrg Design, a product leader, and an organization design practitioner. He has spent over 25 years spearheading product strategy and leading high-performing teams to design, build, and market innovative SaaS products in Fortune 100 companies and Silicon Valley startups. At JOD, Dan applies this experience to building purpose-built organization design tools for the nonprofit sector.
Before JustOrg Design, Dan served as Senior Director of Product at FIS Global's Impact Labs, led product for Trov's mobility division (acquired by Travelers Insurance), and at Hearsay Social, led teams that designed and built products used by over a million business users across the world's largest financial services firms.
Dan also held product leadership roles at Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), IAC Search (Ask Jeeves), Yahoo, Inktomi, and First Consulting Group (acquired by CSC).
How JustOrg Design Came To Be
After 25 years as an executive director, strategy consultant, and board member, Jeanne had witnessed the same painful patterns across hundreds of justice-committed organizations. Brilliant strategies kept stalling. Talented people burned out trying to collaborate across structures that fought their efforts. She realized the problem wasn't the people or the plans—it was that nonprofit organizations aren't intentionally designed for alignment. Strategy, structure, and decision-making were disconnected, and no amount of talent or effort could overcome that.
Jeanne wanted to explore a solution—a practice that braids strategy, structure, and decision-making together—and she knew exactly who to call. Dan had spent decades on the forefront of organization structure—Agile, matrix staffing, leading large teams grappling with alignment challenges in Fortune 100 companies and Silicon Valley startups. He was ready for work that mattered. We built JOD because we'd both been solving this problem from different angles, and justice-committed nonprofits deserve a purpose-built organization design system—not a generic tool adapted from another sector.
Your success is why we built JOD—and why we keep building it.
Hear Jeanne discuss organization design for nonprofits on the Nonprofit Mission: Impact podcast →
Let's Talk About Your Organization
No pitch. No pressure. Just a conversation with people who actually understand what you're up against. We'll walk you through how JOD works and help you think through whether it's the right fit for your organization.
