Tuesday, December 9, 2014

SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT NON-PROFITS

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DEAR WINCHESTER COMMUNITY,

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February 2011

The Top 10 Legal Risks Facing Nonprofit Boards

http://www.venable.com/the-top-10-legal-risks-facing-nonprofit-boards-02-18-2011/
http://www.venable.com/the-top-10-legal-risks-facing-nonprofit-boards-02-18-2011/

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DAVID GAUTHIER AT WINCHESTER COMMUNITY ACCESS AND MEDIA PROTECTS THE ALLEGED SEXUAL HARASSMENT BY STAFFERS AIMED AT THE STUDENTS, AIMED AT THIS AUTHOR, AIMED AT A TECHNICIAN FROM A MAJOR TV STATION THAT UPGRADES WINCAM'S ELECTRONICS.
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EXHIBIT A
Threat from Gauthier in an attempt to stop a whistle blower who filed a legitimate complaint that Melodie Wing, Allan J. Eyden and Peter Pongratz refused to hear:



5-24-12 - David Gauthier's admission that
Complaints are NOT to be filed or else!

 
"If you want to be friendly with the staff, you’ll need to stop tattling on them at every turn...If you want to be a stickler for the rules and have every rule followed to the letter, then you’ll probably have more of the professional – what you call “chill” – relationship. "

The threat to whistleblowers from David Gauthier.
 


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Third-party sexual harassment. Many board members may not be aware that the nonprofits they serve are exposed to claims alleging third-party sexual harassment—illegal harassment committed against employees by vendors or volunteers, or illegal harassment committed by the nonprofit’s employees where third parties such as vendors or volunteers are victims.
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February 2011

The Top 10 Legal Risks Facing Nonprofit Boards

http://www.venable.com/the-top-10-legal-risks-facing-nonprofit-boards-02-18-2011/
http://www.venable.com/the-top-10-legal-risks-facing-nonprofit-boards-02-18-2011/


 EXHIBIT B
STAFFER WHO HARASSED MEMBERS WHILE WE WERE EDITING, TALKING ABOUT SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH AN 'ASIAN' WOMAN THE NIGHT BEFORE, AND DESCRIBING THE WOMAN'S VAGINA IN THE MOST VULGAR OF TERMS.

that harassment happened around adults, as far as we know; some of the children could have been in the next room on the high school property at 80 Skillings Road, Winchester, Mass. 01890

This note - Exhibit B - was written in the office directly across from E.D. David Gauthier; the staffer called his office the "club house" where he claimed he could use vulgar terms like "ball sack" or call a school committee member "Shindy-balls" or describe to the 14, 15 and 16 year old students in graphic detail how many women he had sex with and the number of times he claimed he had sexual performances with them.   See document written in his own handwriting on a DVD sleeve.



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February 2011

The Top 10 Legal Risks Facing Nonprofit Boards

http://www.venable.com/the-top-10-legal-risks-facing-nonprofit-boards-02-18-2011/
http://www.venable.com/the-top-10-legal-risks-facing-nonprofit-boards-02-18-2011/
With ultimate responsible for oversight of the nonprofit’s employment policies, the board should make certain that language prohibiting harassment is broadly worded to include third-party harassment. The board also should be certain that claims alleging illegal harassment are handled with care and without delay, and that sufficient training is undertaken regulalrly to help prevent harassment from occuring in the first place.

WITHOUT DELAY?  TELL THAT TO WINCAM'S
MELODIE A. WING, AN ATTORNEY WHO VIOLATED HER OWN POLICIES MANUAL AND INTENTIONALLY DRAGGED HER FEET SO THAT THERE WOULD BE NO COMPLAINT SESSION HELD.

Melodie Wing's poor response to a legitimate complaint on David Gauthier  @ WinCAM

"The wheels of justice turn slowly."


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Here's  Melodie A. Wing, an attorney, the current president of the board of Winchester Community Access and Media, and a two-time winner of awards at WinCAM (?????) - accepting awards for herself instead of facilitating awards for the children and other members.  On 12/10/14 the Executive Director allegedly is buttering up the longest serving member, Allan J. Eyden of Bonnell Ford, with some equally stupid "award" when Eyden is not seen editing, taping his own shows or anything else.  All this member has seen is Eyden waltzing in to do a commentary on government activities.  So if a member puts in hundreds of hours without help, and Eyden waltzes in with volunteers and staffers doing all the work, Eyden is given an award.  That's called bullying the volunteers and staff to do slave labor for the "king" of WinCAM, highlighting himself at the expense of those he is mandated to help.

Melodie Wing's poor response to a legitimate complaint on Gauthier 

"The wheels of justice turn slowly."


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Read this story:


February 2011

The Top 10 Legal Risks Facing Nonprofit Boards

http://www.venable.com/the-top-10-legal-risks-facing-nonprofit-boards-02-18-2011/
http://www.venable.com/the-top-10-legal-risks-facing-nonprofit-boards-02-18-2011/ ARE THE AWARDS ALLAN J. EYDEN AND MELODIE A. WING RECEIVE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST?

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS SUPPOSED TO FACILITATE LOCAL PROGRAMMING, NOT DENY OUTSIDE PROLIFIC MEMBERS WHO HAVE GENERATED PROGRAMMING MEMBERSHIP SO THAT EYDEN AND WING CONTROL THE STATION AS THEIR OWN SANDBOX.

WE ARE LOOKING INTO THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF ATTORNEYS 'SERVING' ON A BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
THOSE RESPONSIBILITIES ARE POTENTIAL PITFALLS AND COULD SNAG SOMEONE ACTING IN A MANNER THAT IS SELF-SERVING AND INAPPROPRIATE. NO ONE IS BEING ACCUSED, IT IS JUST SOMETHING TO LOOK INTO.

Melodie Wing's poor response to a legitimate complaint on Gauthier 

"The wheels of justice turn slowly."



http://www.venable.com/the-top-10-legal-risks-facing-nonprofit-boards-02-18-2011/
http://www.venable.com/the-top-10-legal-risks-facing-nonprofit-boards-02-18-2011/
Failure to understand and manage conflicts of interest. In recent years, awareness of conflicts of interest in the nonprofit sector has been especially high, with watchdog organizations, the IRS (via the Form 990), and even Congress aggressively monitoring nonprofit governance practices for any hint of abuse. Nonprofits that fail to manage conflicts of interest run the risk of losing public confidence, or worse, becoming the object of a media scandal. Such risks provide ample reason to avoid even the appearance of impropriety by implementing a well-drafted conflict of interest policy and a transparent disclosure process and procedure for managing conflicts. Conflict of interest policies should help nonprofit managers and volunteer leaders understand that not all conflicts involve bad actors with poor ethics. Rather, a conflict can arise any time a nonprofit manager or volunteer leader’s personal, financial or other interests could potentially conflict with the interests of the nonprofit. And recognize that not all conflicts are necessarily bad for the nonprofit; some can even be in the organization's best interests. But the key to effectively dealing with potential conflicts is for the board to undertake a routinized process for identifying, disclosing and managing them.

Melodie Wing's poor response to a legitimate complaint on Gauthier 

"The wheels of justice turn slowly."

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