Moving in the wrong direction. - Anonymous employee National Wildlife Federation Employee Review

- Leadership is too easily distracted by the current political environment and makes decisions based on what they believe is the politically savvy choice rather than adhering to the strategic plan. For example, it is clear that the organization is trying to bury their work on climate change, despite it being a key pillar of the strategic plan. - There is less and less care for employees. The most recent reorganization demonstrates a profound lack of understanding of that work that programs are actually doing. - While I think that it is wise to open new positions to internal hiring first since there has been a history of moving people into new positions without considering who else might be better for the role, the fact that we are currently letting successful long term employees go rather than taking the time to ensure they land on their feet is alarming. - Programs that are successful at fundraising are punished rather than rewarded. Leadership fosters a culture of jealousy around fundraising, and disincentivizes further successful fundraising by limiting how programs can spend their resources. - Leadership has an infantilizing view of staff. When concerns were raised about our performance evaluation system, those were ignored and staff were told that they just didn’t understand the system. - Leadership is gaslighting programs about funding, denying promotions when there are clearly resources to fund them as demonstrated by the salaries for new positions and the salaries of organizational leadership. - Leadership also continues to gaslight staff regarding salaries. We can see that our peers are making more money than we are, but we’re told that our salaries are competitive and that our benefits make up for it. Meanwhile, staff at the top of the organization have received hefty raises in recent years.