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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">There's a good article from GuideStar here:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;"><a href="http://trust.guidestar.org/blog/top-strategic-mistakes-nonprofits-make-part-1" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk106287">http://trust.guidestar.org/blog/top-strategic-mistakes-nonprofits-make-part-1</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;"><br>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">It's titled, 'Top Strategic Mistakes Nonprofits Make'. The article</span><br>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">lists fifteen of them. Making any one of those mistakes can hurt a </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">nonprofit. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">Making all of them can kill it.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">The first one listed is 'Failing to help people find you online.'</span></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="3">People </font><font face="Courier New, monospace">can find KZYX online in lots of places. Especially in online</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">newspapers. Like the Ukiah Daily Journal. And the Anderson Valley</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Advertiser. Most of it's not very flattering.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">The KZYX website has conflicting financial information. Annual </font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Financial Reports swear that audited financial statements have</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">been prepared since 2008. Form 990s swear they weren't. Under</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">penalty of perjury. By a General Manager who should've had a</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">bio on the KZYX website. But didn't. That's John Coate. He's got</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">a website: </font><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;"><a href="http://johncoate.com" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk280758">http://johncoate.com</a>. Where he claims to have cut</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">KZYX's debt by 93%. That contradicts the financial statements</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">on the KZYX website. Where he appears to have doubled it.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">He also claims a tenure of 'unprecedented stability' at KZYX.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">Something contradicted by a mountain of legal bills. And the</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">unprecedented loss of 75% of KZYX's net worth. Not to mention</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">all the great programmers and good employees who got fired.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">That's online too.</span></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Then there's the matter of finding you online, Ms. Courtney.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Your email address appears in only one place: The Anderson</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Valley Advertiser. In an email exchange with Dennis O'Brien</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">that looks like continuing legal bills. Right here:</font></p>
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<p><a href="http://theava.com/archives/57470#18" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk682235"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">http://theava.com/archives/57470#18</span></a><font face="Courier New, monospace"><br>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">Finally, there's online dialogue. KZYX's board of directors</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">has published several </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">editorials. In the Ukiah Daily Journal </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">here:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;"><a href="http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/article/NP/20150218/LOCAL1/150219915" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk948473">http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/article/NP/20150218/LOCAL1/150219915</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;"><br>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">and again here:</span></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">The purpose of both editorials is obvious -- escalating a turf</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">war against a whistleblower. KZYX's duly elected treasurer. Who </font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">was being stonewalled by Mr. Coate. While KZYX was being driven</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">into the ground. Not by Mr. Coate. But by other directors. Who</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">the KZYX balance sheets. From the KZYX website. </font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">I responded to your latest editorial here:</font></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">The point of my editorial was simple: "What's the reason for</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">KZYX policy?" The one where Mr. Coate was able to keep Form 990s </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">away </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">from KZYX board members. There's a comment section at the</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">end of every UDJ editorial section, Ms. Courtney. You didn't use</span></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">it. Neither did any of your fellow board members. Why not? If</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">you can write an editorial, you can certainly respond to one. If</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">I'm sure there's a reason for that policy, Ms. Courtney. And it's</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">probably a good one. But KZYX is a public charity. So the public</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">then publish it. Where everyone can find it -- online.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Sincerely,</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Scott M. Peterson</font></p>
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