Patterns are ready-made starting points you can adopt into your workspace and then adapt to fit your team. There are three kinds we'll explain below.
Role patterns
Role patterns are pre-written role definitions any workspace can adopt. Each includes a purpose, accountabilities, typical workload, and the tools the role usually needs. Browse the catalog when you're filling a new function, adopt the closest match, then edit it to fit your team. For the fundamentals see What are roles, accountabilities and purpose?.
Policy patterns
You can find our policy patterns at the top of this page, per topic (🧑🤝🧑People, 🤓Tech and ⚖️Legal currently). The Policies section of the Moral Fabric app is not yet launched.
Policy patterns are starting points for the rules your organisation runs on: leave, expenses, hiring, conflict of interest. Adopt a pattern to bring a clean draft into your workspace, then edit and publish. They reflect what other nonprofits have agreed on, which shortens the drafting work. Once adopted, manage it in Policies.
Tool & service patterns
Tool and service patterns describe how other workspaces use a specific vendor: which roles touch it, what data flows through it, the typical setup. Use them when you're adding a new tool to your stack and want a head start on who owns it and how to roll it out. For the underlying directory see Suppliers.