After a month of brutal headlines, Time’s Up CEO Tina Tchen resigned on Thursday, leaving behind deep questions about the organization’s mission and values and whether it can continue in its current form.
Tchen, a former corporate attorney who served as Michelle Obama’s chief of staff, pursued a theory of change that relied on cozy relationships with powerful figures. The organization’s board — mostly powerful people in their own right — will now have to decide whether that’s still the right way to serve the #MeToo movement.
“They need to ask themselves as an organization who they are,” said Elizabeth Searing, a professor of nonprofit management at the University of Texas at Dallas. “It’s important to remember that this isn’t the movement. Sometimes it’s the right thing to let a nonprofit die because it’s the right thing for the movement.”
Time’s Up faced withering scrutiny following the Aug.
Tchen, a former corporate attorney who served as Michelle Obama’s chief of staff, pursued a theory of change that relied on cozy relationships with powerful figures. The organization’s board — mostly powerful people in their own right — will now have to decide whether that’s still the right way to serve the #MeToo movement.
“They need to ask themselves as an organization who they are,” said Elizabeth Searing, a professor of nonprofit management at the University of Texas at Dallas. “It’s important to remember that this isn’t the movement. Sometimes it’s the right thing to let a nonprofit die because it’s the right thing for the movement.”
Time’s Up faced withering scrutiny following the Aug.
- 8/27/2021
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