Vantaggi
The Director level employees are some of the best people I've met. I got to meet wonderful people and wish that there were more opportunities to work with them. If you are lucky enough to be staffed in a city with other CCS employees, you immediately have a network. However, since CCS only promotes from within, most of these amazing people see a management team that is stale, weathered and homogeneous and do not want to be a part of it, and leave quickly.
Svantaggi
At one staff retreat we were told by the CEO to think "inside the box" -- that if we think we have a good new idea, we don't. There is a reason why that idea is not "in the box". Sets a good tone to employees, right? The majority of the nonprofit sector is female, however this is not reflected in the demographic makeup of CCS. Senior management is heavily male-dominant and there is no diversity. You are treated and spoken to differently as a male director and there is a overtly heavy misogynistic tone. Work can vary. For the most part I found myself with nothing to do at work for weeks. The whole organization seems stuck in the past and appears to have no desire to move forward. Transparency doesn't exist, and the two times per year the staff gets together, stories are told and it is frustrating and unbelievable the discrepancies between experiences, management, and compensation.