[Kzyxtalk] How to Kill a Nonprofit -- Part 1

[mkathrynmassey at gmail.com]

Scott,


Are you or do you plan to make this information known to the appropriate entities such as the CPB?  Have you already forwarded other facts and findings to the same entities?  

Those of us who made attempts to let this information be known we're labeled as haters and destroyers of the station. Many board members and staff such as Mary Aigner and John Coate believed that Coate knew how to serve as a GM. In hindsight, nothing could be further from the truth.  Your findings based on the paperwork filed, hidden filings or displaced filings has shown otherwise.  

When a sitting board member tried to make sense of what was going on, albeit with incomplete information held back by Coate and Stuart Campbell, he was "shunned" like he was a fallen member of the "farm". Much like Coate was shunned when he was a member of that community. I maintain that the "farm" is the business model Coate implemented as this is the model he learned beginning at age 19 according to his own writings.  

Serious errors have been made throughout Coate's tenure despite legal counsel being available in Richard Hopmann and Eliane Hering, both who served as President of the Board. 

I hope Ms Courtney is taking steps to investigate what actually happened during Coate's tenure or she, along with the current Board. 

m






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> On Jul 14, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Scott Peterson <scottmartinpeterson at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear Ms. Courtney,
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> There's a good article from GuideStar here:
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> http://trust.guidestar.org/blog/top-strategic-mistakes-nonprofits-make-part-1
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> It's titled, 'Top Strategic Mistakes Nonprofits Make'. The article
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> lists fifteen of them. Making any one of those mistakes can hurt a 
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> nonprofit. Making all of them can kill it.
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> The first one listed is 'Failing to help people find you online.'
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> People can find KZYX online in lots of places. Especially in online
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> newspapers. Like the Ukiah Daily Journal. And the Anderson Valley
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> Advertiser. Most of it's not very flattering.
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> The KZYX website has conflicting financial information. Annual 
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> Financial Reports swear that audited financial statements have
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> been prepared since 2008. Form 990s swear they weren't. Under
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> penalty of perjury. By a General Manager who should've had a
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> bio on the KZYX website. But didn't. That's John Coate. He's got
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> a website: http://johncoate.com. Where he claims to have cut
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> KZYX's debt by 93%. That contradicts the financial statements
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> on the KZYX website. Where he appears to have doubled it.
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> He also claims a tenure of 'unprecedented stability' at KZYX.
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> Something contradicted by a mountain of legal bills. And the
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> unprecedented loss of 75% of KZYX's net worth. Not to mention
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> all the great programmers and good employees who got fired.
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> That's online too.
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> Then there's the matter of finding you online, Ms. Courtney.
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> Your email address appears in only one place: The Anderson
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> that looks like continuing legal bills. Right here:
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> http://theava.com/archives/57470#18
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> Finally, there's online dialogue. KZYX's board of directors
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> has published several editorials. In the Ukiah Daily Journal 
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> http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/article/NP/20150218/LOCAL1/150219915
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> http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/opinion/20160602/kzyx-board-responds
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> The purpose of both editorials is obvious -- escalating a turf
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> war against a whistleblower. KZYX's duly elected treasurer. Who 
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> was being stonewalled by Mr. Coate. While KZYX was being driven
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> into the ground. Not by Mr. Coate. But by other directors. Who
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> were either too incompetent -- or lazy -- to sit down and read
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> the KZYX balance sheets. From the KZYX website. 
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> I responded to your latest editorial here:
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> http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/article/NP/20160611/LOCAL1/160619982
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> The point of my editorial was simple: "What's the reason for
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> KZYX policy?" The one where Mr. Coate was able to keep Form 990s 
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> away from KZYX board members. There's a comment section at the
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> end of every UDJ editorial section, Ms. Courtney. You didn't use
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> it. Neither did any of your fellow board members. Why not? If
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> you can write an editorial, you can certainly respond to one. If
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> I'm sure there's a reason for that policy, Ms. Courtney. And it's
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> probably a good one. But KZYX is a public charity. So the public
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> needs to know what it is. All you have to do is write it up. And
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> then publish it. Where everyone can find it -- online.
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> Sincerely,
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> Scott M. Peterson
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