People shouldn't be so shocked. The same goes for Superintendent Rudolph and his second-in-command Ghysels at Mountain View Whisman School District. The EXACT same thing as been going on. Amazing they both still have jobs. The Board is clueless like in this situation.

Very proud of current and former staff for bringing this further to the board! We were drawn to SVCF with big dreams of changing the world at the 'nation's largest community foundation' only to face what has come to light now. For a foundation so set on impacting the local and global community, it sure did not care for it's OWN internal community (see Glassdoor reviews-all are 100% accurate). For Emmett to deny these allegations is also laughable but not surprising. He can enjoy his 'paid leave' considering his annual salary runs at nearly $900,000.

I don't even work in that sector but I have heard from multiple people for years that it's a bad place. The CEO must have known.

it is very hard for California incorporated non-profit directors to 'git their head around' the legal fact they have been granted, by CA Corporations Code, the absolute right to inspect all documents of the corporation. There are very very few restrictions to this director's oversight right/responsibility. (can't delve into employees medical leave records, personnel data like home addresses, spouse/legal-parner names).

But # of complaints (formal) received by the HR department, # of informal email complaints received by the HR department, text of the complaints received (maybe redacted by the complainers name), exit interviews?

All that is fair game - and what a responsible non-profit direct needs to 'troll', on their own, with their own State Law derived oversight power. Never defer to the CEO. Never. And this is not a Board-voted power, it is individual.

The Business Man, can you quote the Code for us, or further explain?

Behaviors like those described here are far more common in silicon valley, including or especially its commercial firms, than outsiders realize (including people IN silicon valley but outside the afflicted organizations). I've experienced it first-hand, and seen and heard of many other cases. The polished, smooth-talking new hire into a key hands-on managment role, who seems to know everyone in the field, and sets those higher in the organization brimming with confidence. Then takes credit for results he or she had nothing to do with (or actively obstructed); loses all respect from subordinates, and so substitutes sheer position power and personal bullying; in time, drives away all of the real talent; then, once let go (for these people are inevitably let go, usually much too late, if only because the outfit they were hired to lead was wrecked), they boast in their next job interviews (or on an employment résumé -- I've seen this too) how they led their former organization to glory, or even "turned it around" (a literal quote).

Whether these behaviors stem from Narcissistic Personality Disorder, from the haunting insecurity of someone who knows they're incompetent but is politically shrewd, or from the type of pathological liar who makes up claims freely and then proceeds to believe them -- the overall result is the same: a workplace "bad apple" whose destructive effects on the organization extend vastly beyond just the waste of salary paid to the person. The other common denominator: acquiescence or enabling by senior management, because for a problem employee to drive away many good people takes time, and shows signs along the way. So these episodes always say as much about the organization's management culture as about the one bad-news individual.

It'd be an epic general topic for a writer or documentary filmmaker who wanted to look at silicon valley for real (beyond the customary gee-whiz pop-culture superficialities), but I don't know if that's truly possible, because doing it justice would require the unique insight of direct, visceral employee experience with these situations.

I have close friend who used to work SVCF and had heard about Loijens. I have also met Carson and heard him speak. He is a charismatic speaker, and appears to have progressive beliefs on a variety of areas in terms of making life better for those disadvantaged. However, it seems clear that he has little regard for his employees or having a positive work culture. Loijens was a cancer. I really never have understood why those in power feel the need to step on the very people that do the hard work everyday. Loijens is either a sociopath (has no empathy), and/or a narcissist that is inherently insecure. This is nothing new, I guess, but the sad thing is that there used to be a more beneficial way of doing business and treating employees with respect. Hewlett and Packard apparently had it right. This kind of disdain and mistreatment is all to prevalent now, and seems to be growing. What no one seems to talk about with SVCF, is that not only did Carson look the other way, but I have to believe that some of the board members did too. Hard to believe that no board member had ever heard or known about this. That no one talked to or sent a message to board members in all these years. But I guess when you grow an organization from $2billion to $13billion in a few years, people can look the other way.