Vantaggi
Working for SCORE feels good because you're actually helping small business owners succeed, and you can see the real impact of your work. The remote setup is great and gives you flexibility. Most of the regular staff are solid people who care about what they're doing and are easy to work with. The volunteers are absolutely amazing, they're selfless, dedicated, and truly special people that the organization could never survive without. They go way above and beyond the call of duty and truly make a difference in the lives of small business owners. These volunteers are the heart of what makes SCORE work.
Svantaggi
Some managers are pretty awful to work under. They micromanage everything and just react to problems instead of planning ahead. The executive team, run by Bridget Weston (not Ken Yancy who was let go from SCORE 10 years ago), seems way in over their heads and honestly doesn't seem to know what they're doing. It's frustrating watching a 60-year-old organization fall apart because leadership can't figure out basic planning. They never bothered to create backup funding plans, so when government money got tight, they just started laying people off left and right. Meanwhile, leadership keeps spending money on unnecessary travel and in-person meetings that could easily be done over Zoom. The whole focus has shifted from helping small businesses for free to trying to squeeze money out of everyone, which feels wrong given what SCORE is supposed to be about.