Best Nonprofit I've Worked For - werkgeversreview Anonieme werknemer bij GLSEN

The people truly care about the cause, and are very level-headed, down-to-earth, and proactive. This org had the least drama of any nonprofit I've worked for, and was also one of the most effective in terms of making significant, lasting improvements for LGBTQ youth. Regarding internal hierarchies: again one of the best groups I've had the pleasure of working with. Barely any ego. Most people just care about getting the work done effectively and efficiently without caring about who gets credit or who's in charge. I can't speak to the overall org, but at the chapter I was involved with, power was quite decentralized without much sacrificing of internal organization.

Nothing really. If pressed, I'd say perhaps that it was sometimes hard to know who to ask / approach if I had a question or needed direction. Because most of management were volunteers and had PT or FT jobs outside of GLSEN, it seemed that official positions changed hands more than at nonprofits that have a larger core of their own PT / FT employees. So roles and duties changed somewhat frequently out of understandable necessity.

great work life balance and decent pay

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.