Pros
Mission driven. Fulfilling to work with the students.
Cons
Poor leadership. Micromanagers from the top down. Nasty gossip always being spread. Constant mention of money going missing. This trickles down to the directors who are petty and vindictive. People have been put on performance improvement plans for solely disagreeing with directors and HR is ineffective at doing anything about it. HR suggests employees play the game rather than address directors who practice retaliation. Staff mocks students to their face and behind closed doors, even going so far as to make fun of a student's faith guiding decisions. Directors continually undermine each other and make everything a competition, to the detriment of their subordinates. People are mistakenly fired for a day without the knowledge of their supervisors, only to be rehired and told it was a "mistake". I've never been at an organization that was so toxic, destructive and embracing of fear culture. I think that this is because the majority of the employees come from cutthroat finance organizations, and they don't know how to let go of that unproductive behavior when they come to the non-profit world. It's discomforting when everyone, including the directors, is constantly applying and looking for new jobs. How can one thrive in an organization like that?