American Red Cross reviews

Lack of leadership, management skills, vision, humanitarian focus. Evidence of long-term patterns of malfeasance, discrimination and even corruption. Lack of recourse within organization to employees who protest, wish to resolve problems or seek redress. Deep structural cronyism. Punitive conduct towards those who ask questions or urge reform. Institutional arrogance and inertia. Open exploitation of donors and volunteers with false promises and platitudes. Misallocation of donor monies and volunteer time. Lack of respect for donor and volunteer privacy and confidentiality. Repeated violations of key federal and state regulations. Expensive use of PR to stifle criticism and dodge accountability. Leadership tends to be politically partisan and from right of the political spectrum.

Performance goes unrewarded while incompetence is overlooked. Management has a lot of C and D players that tend to recruit other C and D players. Several key exectutives are grossly unqualified and lack basic management and leadership skills. There is a lot of nepotism and favoritism to go around. Employee morale is very low when I left, but has only become worse since then as the organization was forcewd to lay off 30 per cent ot headquarters staff. Unfortunately, even this opportunity did not clean house of the those individuals that should have been let go as too much dead wood is still afloat within the irganization.