Vantaggi
Better pay than most non-profits in the area, potential to do really good work, though not often able to meet that potential due to how it's managed.
Svantaggi
Poor direction from executive team, flip-flopping, blame workers for rushed and poorly thought out programs and poor training. Use the "ends justify the means" excuse to exploit workers, hide behind "it's the clients that will suffer" as a get out of jail free card to criticism of harmful practices and to excuse exploitation of staff. They don't listen to staff that's doing the actual work. If this was a TV show, staff are just expendable bit parts while management are the main characters who, for lack of a better term, woke-wash for authoritarian and exploitative practices. They'll say all the right words and put a spin on their practices, but in practice are more exploitative and discriminatory than any other workplace I've been a part of. As middle-management they'll say 36 work week, but work you to death and/or make important decisions or change whole operations during the 100s of hours/week they work so you and the rest of the team are constantly trying to catch up or fix the problems those impulsive decisions cause. Nothing moves fast enough for the executive team, so nothing is well thought out or stable. And if you're not a good little soldier that falls in-line with the harmful decisions or practices, they'll find a way to cut you out even more and sabotage you, make things even worse to make you leave one way or another. They'll gaslight you until you can't see straight and make you feel like you're special for working yourself to the bone for a "the cause" (serious culty vibes) and the make you feel like no other job will love you like they do (abusive relationship vibes). I cannot recommend working here in the slightest. This is a terrible place to work, which is a tragedy for the absolute squandering of the potential this place has, but leadership has more than just dropped the ball, they've destroyed the ball.