Fifteen years ago this week, in the depths of the Bush-Cheney era, I found myself both frustrated with the direction of our country and hopeful about the amazing people whose values I shared who were fighting relentlessly to turn things around. With my founding donor, Peter Lewis, we started working on the plan for what would become The Management Center and The Management Action Center. We hoped to do our small part to help those leaders and their teams succeed in advancing justice by making it easier for them to achieve their missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m proud of what we\u2019ve become since that time. As just a few measures of our progress, we\u2019ve gone from serving ten organizations in 2006 to almost 400 last year, from reaching 25 individuals a year to 15,000 in 2019, from being supported entirely by one donor to covering the bulk of our expenses through earned revenue, and from two white co-founders to a powerful, multi-racial team of 50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More importantly, we\u2019ve had the incredible privilege of working alongside and in support of all of you reading this. You all are fighting the most important struggles of our time: You’re fighting to promote racial and economic justice. You\u2019re fighting for immigrant rights, for LGBTQ liberation, and for policies to slow climate change, to reduce gun violence, to expand access to health care. You\u2019re working tirelessly to ensure schools provide students of color with the opportunities they deserve. And you\u2019re building the infrastructure that will advance our collective work on all those fronts, whether you\u2019re registering and mobilizing voters, developing new leaders from marginalized communities, shaping media coverage and public understanding, or providing funding to support all this work. In short, you\u2019re working day in and day out to help turn this country into what it could be. I have learned so much working alongside all of you, and I have drawn my energy, day in and day out, from yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And\u2026now that we\u2019ve completed this most recent election, Donald Trump won\u2019t be the only one leaving his job in DC!<\/strong> (Gosh, that was fun to write.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n We know that the struggles for justice continue\u2014as will our work here at The Management Center\u2014and that the need for the work you all are doing is as great as it has ever been. Personally, I know that after 15 years as CEO, I\u2019m ready to contribute in new ways and use different muscles than I do in this role. I\u2019m also excited to make room for new leadership here that I know will make our work even more useful to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I can\u2019t wait to write to you again in the new year to introduce my successor. In the meantime, thank you for all that you are doing\u2014every day, in the face of painful injustice and daunting odds\u2014to make this a more just world. And thank you for the honor of having worked so closely with so many of you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Jerry Hauser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After 15 years as CEO, I\u2019m ready to contribute in new ways and use different muscles than I do in this role. I\u2019m also excited to make room for new leadership here that I know will make our work even more useful to the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":10422,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7519","update","type-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-our-ceo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n