Environment America reviews

Low pay- for my role, in the summer I transition from white collar office work (40 hrs/wk) to 60 hours a week canvass directing, with no increase in pay, no overtime. The travel is exhausting. It all very last minute, very corner cutting, and with no per diem. Asking for reimbursement for the uber to airport is exhausting. When traveling, its long hours and expecated that you go to eat as group, and pay your own way. For most people in my role, they expect you to move across the country for the summer with no moving assistance or pay increase. I was the singular Black employee in the entire nation, and not a single Latino person works at the company (on a staff level, the short term hire and unpaid interns are much more diverse)

If you work here, you’ll have to canvass during the summer—which means knocking on strangers’ doors, some of whom won’t be kind. If you’re okay with being insulted daily, then maybe this is the job for you. There’s no real concern for safety. If something happens while you’re canvassing, they’ll downplay it and offer you one option: quit. You’ll work 70 hours a week with no overtime pay, all for minimum wage. The turnover is through the roof.I’m sure there are better ways to raise money, but they insist on sticking to a 50-year-old marketing plan that involves begging for donations and walking alone for hours in the dark.