On behalf of the leadership team and board of GWWC, I wanted to respond to this forum post that has affected a lot of people across the community, including our own team.
Firstly, Fran, thank you for your courage in writing this. We’re deeply sorry for what you experienced, the rape, the sexual harassment that followed, and the painful, drawn-out process of seeking accountability. You deserved far better, and we’re grateful you shared this so honestly. We hope you can take some time to rest and heal after all of this.
As an organization working in the same ecosystem, we want to say: we are not immune to the inequalities and harm that exist in the world simply because we’re trying to reduce suffering. If anything, our missions make paying attention to these inequalities more important, not less. Thank you for flagging the aspects of our ecosystem’s culture that we need to be extra mindful of.
We want to build an organization and wider community where harassment is as unlikely as possible to happen, and where people are genuinely supported if it does. At GWWC, we and our boards are actively working on strengthening our HR capacity as we grow and have safeguarding, whistleblowing and harassment policies in place. This tragic event and your courageous post only underline the importance of doing this well.
This is a disappointingly supportive message towards CEA’s handling of the situation.
There will be some people who do not want to associate with CEA knowing that this is how they handle actions by employees, and how they address failures by the leadership team.
Surely you don’t speak on behalf of all of GWWC?
And surely some will reconsider their support of GWWC as well?
Amit
EDIT: It’s easy to ‘disagree’ and spread negative karma with just a tap, isn’t it?
It’s harder to explain why.
Maybe eventually we’ll agree that once people have made mistakes, doubled down on them, been independently assessed to have made avoidable mistakes, make ineffective changes to prevent the preventable mistakes, that those people are not suited to those roles...
...the “E” in EA stands for ‘Effective’. If the HR function of an organization can’t be effective, how can the altruism be?
On behalf of the leadership team and board of GWWC, I wanted to respond to this forum post that has affected a lot of people across the community, including our own team.
Firstly, Fran, thank you for your courage in writing this. We’re deeply sorry for what you experienced, the rape, the sexual harassment that followed, and the painful, drawn-out process of seeking accountability. You deserved far better, and we’re grateful you shared this so honestly. We hope you can take some time to rest and heal after all of this.
As an organization working in the same ecosystem, we want to say: we are not immune to the inequalities and harm that exist in the world simply because we’re trying to reduce suffering. If anything, our missions make paying attention to these inequalities more important, not less. Thank you for flagging the aspects of our ecosystem’s culture that we need to be extra mindful of.
We want to build an organization and wider community where harassment is as unlikely as possible to happen, and where people are genuinely supported if it does. At GWWC, we and our boards are actively working on strengthening our HR capacity as we grow and have safeguarding, whistleblowing and harassment policies in place. This tragic event and your courageous post only underline the importance of doing this well.
On behalf of GWWC,
Thank you again, Fran.
-James (COO @ GWWC)
James,
This is a disappointingly supportive message towards CEA’s handling of the situation.
There will be some people who do not want to associate with CEA knowing that this is how they handle actions by employees, and how they address failures by the leadership team.
Surely you don’t speak on behalf of all of GWWC?
And surely some will reconsider their support of GWWC as well?
Amit
EDIT: It’s easy to ‘disagree’ and spread negative karma with just a tap, isn’t it?
It’s harder to explain why.
Maybe eventually we’ll agree that once people have made mistakes, doubled down on them, been independently assessed to have made avoidable mistakes, make ineffective changes to prevent the preventable mistakes, that those people are not suited to those roles...
...the “E” in EA stands for ‘Effective’. If the HR function of an organization can’t be effective, how can the altruism be?