United Way Reviews

Pros

Great Opportunity to Work from Home!

Cons

Lack of Resources to get the job done!

Pros

great mission-led organization and terrific staff

Cons

not enough resources to do job well

Pros

Helping Others who are in need

Cons

Not as competitive as for profit organizations

Advice to Senior Management

Praise good work

Pros

Your co-workers are good people

Cons

Top heavy management, terrible wages and bennies unless you are management!

Advice to Senior Management

Charity starts at home

Pros

flexibility, great supervisor, challenging tasks

Cons

always on a time crunch, budget constraints, limited resources

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to break down silos between departments, encourage work life balance

Pros

Ability to positively influence the community in a broad way. Strong national organization.

Cons

Salaries in the not-for-profit world are quite low.

Advice to Senior Management

Retention is key, and needs to be more of a focus.

Pros

They do not micromanage. Plenty of work/life balance. Strong brand recognition of United Way opens a lot of doors. We are able to work alongside and network with the leaders of the community from every sector.

Cons

Can be a very heirarchal organization despite lots of claims that they are not. There can be a lot of internal politics. Gaining employee feedback can be useful but at times I think employees need to be simply held more accountable to fulfilling expected roles.

Advice to Senior Management

Stronger leadership would serve the organization well. At times it feels as if there is a facade of constantly seeking employee feedback when in reality all we need is strong guidance and leadership.

Pros

Dynamic and meaningful work
Coworkers who care about each other and community
Opportunity for personal development

Cons

Uneven quality to staff in terms of competence
Management on conservative, risk adverse side
Not enough diversity in staff

Advice to Senior Management

Make the tough decision on poor staff so others don't burnout. Pay entry level staff a bit more to get better people. Diversify board, staff and organization, community will benefit from different ideas, approaches and styles. The work demands it

Pros

It is rewarding because you are personally involved in helping to change an individual's life. It is also a pleasure to witness the end result(s) of all your hard work.

Cons

The senior management team are a corrupt group. If you're not well-liked, they will make your job very difficult by sabotaging assignments, deleting emails, and making themselves unavailable when you need their cooperation or signature on projects. It was hell.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to follow before you accept a title and leadership position you are not prepared for.

Pros

Good work life balance that offers a flexible schedule

Cons

Organization is not structured to support collaboration; Almost seems to discourage it
Many people have been there or in non-profit a long time, sometimes making them seem complacent or even lazy
Some of the senior leadership are often closed-minded to new ways of doing things

Advice to Senior Management

Make the right tough decisions to upgrade the talent when necessary
Learn how to cultivate good people and get rid of the bad