Young Life Reviews

Pros

Flexible schedule, incredible benefits, wonderful community.

Cons

Terrible compensation, lack of organizational structure, not much room for growth.

Advice to Management

Young Life should take steps to paying their staff who desire to be career staff with the organization and more competitve salary as well as develop a better organizational structure that encourages mentorship and leadership development.

Pros

Working with a team of people committed to investing in our younger generations was some of the most rewarding work I've done. There were so many relationships built at a bunch of different levels: locally, regionally, nationally, even internationally. The potential for networking and creating support systems are amazing and broaden a community's capacity to change for the better.

Cons

The donor fundraising model seems outdated and also struggles to work in a non-profit saturated society (the United States that is). Most, if not all staff positions requires the individual staff member to fundraise their own salary. This is neither sustainable nor viable - again, we've hit a societal saturation point in asking people for money.

Advice to Management

There is room for out-of-the-box thinking and creativity in how to fund the mission of YL. So much potential to be innovative and avant gard - especially with the people that YL attracts. Building teams and brainstorming how each community can support YL has great potential.