Needs to look inward - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Generation Hope

The vision and leadership of the organization are the biggest pros: motivated, driven, passionate, fair, experienced, creative, energetic, and successful. The organization is exemplary across every vertical. They are building a motivated, experienced team. Generation Hope has set the standard in the realm it works in. The positive impacts of the work are immense. There are many highly talented people. It is also a very family-friendly organization with great PTO and good benefits. Leadership is always looking for new ways to optimize employee experience. The new office is nice. The resources available are strong for skilled professionals. If you enjoy meaningful, engaging work and have a deep commitment to race equity this is a great place to be. Most of the staff are really grateful to get to work with leaders who want to help them grow and succeed. There are many kind and gracious people here who truly care about this mission.

The non-factual messages on this Glassdoor don’t tell the real story. Many of the negative messages here are from a few troubled employees and ex employees who have harmful agendas, behaviors, and motives. Generation Hope is a great organization to work for. Time always puts things into perspective. The unfair messages on here won’t age well. Only 10% of nonprofits in the United States are led by people of color and staff need to support leaders of color - and listen to them. There is a trend of entitlement and hubris among a small clique of people. If you are experienced in the nonprofit sector you will love working here. If you are new, you can learn from some of the best and grow.

The written mission of the organization.

-lack of staff support and development; -incongruence with stated values; -top down, bottlenecked decision-making; -egotistical leadership; -unlawful practices [e.g., mismanagement of funds, union busting, requiring staff to sign non-competes when DC banned such for employees making <$250k; mismanagement of benefits (not paying retirement for multiple months, not taking out health premiums on time, etc.)]; -ineffective operations; -no IT support; -territorial and anti-external collaboration (which is detrimental to actually achieving the stated mission); -multiple lawsuits are depleting the org of funding needed to continue the work and backfill vacant positions; -so much more The organization had a history of hiring a highly competent team, but drives quality team members out.