You are all so eager to assume the very worst of these people without giving them the opportunity to explain before going over their heads. They may not even have received the email messages due to vacations, conferences, illnesses, computer crashes, any number of things.
Extreme Quilter, until you actually speak with them, I think you are being terribly unfair and, as a NPO administrator and board member, I find your prejudgement frightening. Why have you not picked up the phone and called them in all the weeks this has been eating at you?