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3.1

53% would recommend to a friend

(143 total reviews)
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Steve Fields

14% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

Progress Foundation has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 143 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Progress Foundation employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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143 reviews
3.0
Aug 17, 2022

Progress at Progress?

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Pros

Hands on experience working with people with mental health, and often co-occurring substance issues. A job at Progress will quickly inform you whether or not you have a talent and long term interest to work with this population.

Cons

Training is very inadequate, as is the pay. However, in my opinion, the very worst part of working at Progress was the fairly regular promotion of people with serious narcissistic issues to supervisory positions, resulting in toxic working conditions, often for multiple years.

1.0
Jan 13, 2022
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Pros

The clients you work with are amazing, it's very meaningful work when you actually feel like you can help them

Cons

-Not enough training given to or required for any of the counselors or relief counselors, which means that we're not able to help the clients as much as we would like. -The people at the top get paid an insane amount higher than everyone else, financial distribution does not make sense and you rarely see money getting put into the things that really need it like a living wage for employees for one??, improvements for the houses, activities for clients, better training for employees, etc. -constantly understaffed because the environment is so unsupportive that it can't keep good people for very long -you can see that you're not actually providing the support that these clients need. Yes it's helping, and depending on the house and staff the clients interact with, they are getting support. But it's really sad how this organization truly fails those they're supposed to serve. They deserve better, both employees and clients -no emotional support for employees in place to help them after dealing with serious client mental health crises -may I repeat it is NOT a living wage. There is no way to support yourself and enjoy life in SF with these wages without having a second job at least.

1.0
Mar 6, 2019

Poor Management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Work in mental health field in downtown SF.

Cons

Central management exploitative, forcing directors to work unreasonable hours and take their work home with them. Cliques of underqualified power tripping two-faced upper management speak poorly of lower employees behind their back. There is an open resentment by the CEO towards the educated professional of the mental health field.

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