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      1.8

      13% would recommend to a friend

      (41 total reviews)

      Melanie Willingham-Jaggers

      19% approve of CEO

      12% positive business outlook

      Ratings by sexual orientation

      GLSEN has an employee rating of 1.8 out of 5 stars, based on 41 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a poor working experience there. The GLSEN employee rating is 52% below average for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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      41 reviews
      1.0
      Mar 23, 2026

      Great Representation of the Ugliness of Non-profits

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The staff used be a a collection of great people, until senior management decided to target anyone who wouldn't be a yes-man

      Cons

      You either kiss the ring or you get let go. They are too comfortable asking staff to embrace unethical practices in our work, simply to serve their own needs and boost their ego.

      1.0
      Feb 2, 2026

      "where there is no vision, the people perish"

      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      great work life balance and decent pay

      Cons

      this job was great until the org needed to navigate a fiscal cliff. a year after those layoffs, I'm still left wondering why the staff was handled the way they were. money issues are real, to be sure, but everything could have been handled far more humanely. the only thing that seems to make sense of the actions that followed was that senior leadership was devoid of any strategy for how to move forward and decided to spend their efforts preserving their own reputations. prior to the layoffs, it was a decent place to work if you could keep your head down and avoid getting caught up in the usually office politics of ego. can't really speak to what it might be like post-layoffs.

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      GLSEN Response
      4mo
      We’re very sorry to hear that your experience working at GLSEN wasn’t reflective of the work environment we strive to achieve. Layoffs due to financial constraints are never easy. As a nonprofit, we are subject to what the donor/funding landscape holds and as you know, we are living in a volatile and unfriendly political landscape that unfortunately created a situation that was untenable.
      1.0
      Mar 19, 2025

      We are not important

      Volunteer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Mission and vision are clear- to support LGBTQ+ youth and educators

      Cons

      The CEO does not appreciate the work chapter members do; dismissive

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      GLSEN Response
      1y
      First, to clarify, volunteers at chapters are not employees of GLSEN. Like all nonprofits that have volunteers, there are guidelines and expectations on what we expect from volunteers but since volunteers are not paid staff of GLSEN, they don't actually "work" at GLSEN, full or part-time. What GLSEN does value is the time, energy and dedication that each volunteer contributes to our work and we always acknowledge and appreciate that dedication and hard work and GLSEN would not be able to accomplish what it does without the participation and support of all of our chapters and its volunteers.
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