Last of the board duties

The last of the duties of a non-profit Board of Directors to be addressed are 1) to ensure legal and ethical integrity, as the board is ultimately responsible for adherence to legal standards and ethical norms and 2) to enhance the organization's public standing by clearly articulating the organization's mission, accomplishments, and goals so as to garner support from the community.

Ensure Legal & Ethical Integrity

The Grey2K USA Board has no control over either the organization's President or Executive Director. Board members appear to be replaced at will, whenever the mood strikes. There is a lack of ethics displayed by the organization as they continually violate copyright laws and use funds obtained to "help the greyhounds" for "working vacations", the most recent of which is a 10-day working vacation in England. Of course the airfare & lodging expenses come out of the donations made "for the greyhounds".

One has to wonder about the timing of the trip. You see, the timing is such that the Grey2K salaried principals can partake in the 1000 Greyhound World Record Dog Walk, making sure their anti-racing, hate mongering buttons and pamphlets (again donation funded) litter the bucolic English countryside. Some are wondering how many greyhounds could have been temporarily housed, fed, and cared for in adoption kennels while waiting for available homes with the amount of donation dollars that are being put to use for this very, very important "working vacation"????

Other examples which indicate a lack of ethics include:

Grey2K Is Known For Distorting The Facts.

On November 6, 2000, the Boston Herald called Grey2K’s campaign to ban greyhound racing in Massachusetts “…a ruthless campaign of deceit, distortion and defamation of character”.

Grey2K Actively Opposes Mainstream Adoption Groups.

On February 5, 2009, Grey2K President Christine Dorchak published a newsletter advising supporters to “refrain from interacting” with the nation’s largest independent greyhound adoption group, Greyhound Pets of America.

Enhance the organization's public standing

Results are the key to measuring any organizations success and will demonstrate if the organization is being run appropriately or if it is time for the Board of Directors to take action and appoint new leadership – well that is unless the current leadership is the same leadership that has been running the organization since day one and has been appointing and removing board members at will since its inception, but that is a story for another blog.

Let us take a look at what the founders and leadership of GREY2K had to say in 2007:

Founders Note
"Dear Friends, 

Seven years ago, Carey and I founded GREY2K USA with the intention
of ending dog racing nationwide. Since that time, six tracks have
closed – first Multnomah Greyhound Park in Oregon, then two more
in Connecticut, and more recently, one each in Kansas, Texas and
Wisconsin. 

This progress did not happen because of something we did..." 

Christine A. Dorchak, Esq.,
President
Carey M. Theil,
Executive Director
http://www.grey2kusa.org/pdf/newsletter.11.07.pdf

GREY2K USA’s leadership admitted back in 2007 that they’ve done nothing.

"This progress did not happen because of something we did..."

That is correct.  They have done nothing since the big bang theory created GREY2K USA.

IT WAS LEGAL TO RACE IN 49 STATES when they began, AND IT IS STILL LEGAL TO RACE IN 49 STATES TODAY.

What exactly has the leadership of GREY2K USA done? We do know they have spent a bundle ($2M+) of the public’s money. A big question is, where has the money gone?  Since the leadership keeps the financial records locked up in a tiny crate and will not release any unaltered financial statements, we only have to look at an organization that the Grey2K President also controlled with an iron fist to discover her modus operandi ~ collect a boat load of donations and then spend it like it is her own tax free Swiss bank account.

Ladies and Gentlemen step right up and feast your eyes on the spending ways of the Grey2K leadership in their 2009 nom de guerre, The Committee to Protect Dogs ~

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/82266047/Fundraising-Proposals

They can smear, they can lie, but we will discover their twists & turns and will hold them accountable.

Their cause is a concept. Their donations are used to rent cars and have catered meals and pay production companies to make political films.

Our greyhounds are not a concept. Greyhound adoption groups struggle every day to stay afloat and find homes for the greyhounds that Grey2K only talk about.


Yours in greyhounds...