United Way Reviews

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-not much ability to be promoted
-cap to salary

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Family benefits could be improved

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Little diversity among upper management

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Not a huge staff so you're expected to wear many hats.

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There is some occasional micromanagement.

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The location is difficult to travel to.

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- Low pay - IEUW uses AmeriCorps funding to staff lower-level program coordinators. Pay comes out to about $7 an hour. Ironic that IEUW wants to help lower income kids from the Inland Empire go to college but then pays desperate college grads less than minimum wage.
- Other than 211 and some college-awareness work, the community programs are feel-good, very surface-level solutions to systemic problems in the Inland Empire. We give processed, salty food to under-resources kids but don't fund partner programs that teach healthy eating.

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The job can be stressful job

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Running out of $ & managed by a incompetents

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United Way local branches operate like franchises and vary widely in their quality and management. The branch that I worked for struggled intensely to fund raise as they continued to operate under an outdated model. The lack of innovation was driving the organization deeper and deeper into a financial hole from which there is likely no return. As a result, there was a pattern of layoffs and bully tactics to get staff to resign when financial outlooks for the year looked grim. Overall organizational morale was low and leadership was more focused on self-preservation than in making strategic decisions that could have altered the future of the organization. Ultimately more dollars were going into sustaining organizational operations than were actually going to community goods and services.