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The Trevor Project reviews

2.6

41% would recommend to a friend

(201 total reviews)

Peggy Rajski

12% approve of CEO

21% positive business outlook

The Trevor Project has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 201 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The The Trevor Project employee rating is 30% below average for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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201 reviews
5.0
Sep 3, 2015

Great place, great people

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The Trevor Project is a much needed organization with an important mission. 99% of the staff are dedicated to the cause. Great place to work if you're passionate about preventing suicide among LGBTQ youth and want to work with awesome people.

Cons

Could it be anymore obvious that the majority of negative reviews on this site were written by the same person?

2.0
Mar 16, 2023

Noble Cause | Abusive Senior Leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Very strong benefits - Work-life balance if you want it - Many passionate and intelligent people working toward a great cause - Remote work - Competitive pay for my position and department

Cons

Horrific senior leadership who refuse to challenge each other, stand up to abusive behavior, call out micromanagement, or enact changes in order to protect LGBTQ youth and BIPOC/trans/nb/disabled employees. In the last 9 months, the following has happened: - Former CEO caught up in an opioid scandal. You can find all the info on Google. - Former CEO gives a pathetic apology that totally skirted responsibility. - Former CEO not fired by the Board, despite hard evidence of involvement. - Former CEO hired a handful of senior leaders who followed his style of leadership (results over people, metrics over mission, departure from grassroots organization to corporate-y style, etc.) and implemented changes irrespective of the impact it had on our staff and the youth we serve. - Black and trans/nb voices repeatedly silenced during an org-wide meeting when they were asking for accountability. - An outright workers' revolution happened where multiple departments published open letters naming a number of abuses from leaders across the organization. - Employees had to sign a petition to plead with the Board to fire the CEO. They finally fired him. - Leadership shut down the general Slack channel to halt communication amongst staff. - A straight white woman was appointed interim-CEO, even after all the abuses that were related to white supremacy and transphobia. - Entire recruitment team laid off by new CPO and other senior leaders who were at the forefront of some of the abuses. - Unionization effort to protect our crisis workers, BIPOC employees, trans/nb employees, and employees with disabilities . - The effort has not been formally recognized by leadership. To say the least, it's an absolute mess here. I believe deeply in the mission, but I'm begging whoever is reading this to heed the warnings of others who provided reviews. There is continuity in them. We're fighting to right the course and turn the ship around, but there are wildly incompetent and cowardly people in senior leadership who refuse to listen and are fighting to maintain their power. Trevor will unfortunately sink if something doesn't change.

1.0
Sep 19, 2022
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Pros

In theory, the best part of Trevor is the intention of their "written" mission! On paper it looks good, sounds good, and is nice to say in every way. Achieving it costs donors 10X in antiquated business operations, overhead, and misuse of monetary resources.

Cons

The CEO and Executive Director micromanages and discriminates at its finest on every level within every vertical within the organization. The People Team "nka People Organization" is antiquated at every turn - every function. We are extremely eloquent at providing written explanations to flood your inbox and not answer or resolve anything to waste your time and frustrate our employees even more. We'd like to respond, but unless we have approval from CCM or DPB, we can't respond unless our response are reviewed and approved, or written for us and approved by the CEO and Executive Director. Have you ever wondered why it takes so long to get a response from the People team or why we continually ask you to resubmit a Services Ticket! Systems, Processes, and procedures are held together with "duck tape and a prayer!" Not to worry, the best part is our new CPO, DPB hired her complete regime from her past employer and brought them over to Trevor. Soon you'll start to see them all starting their first day. I'm sure all of the People team below these new VP roles are being reorganized to terminate all of us who are below them! For all existing employees, do not trust or confide in the Executive Team in any Listening Tours scheduled ---- it's all for show. DPB is not interested in improving anything, just implementing her agenda like a football team. Truly, if you're not drinking the kool aide, you will be walked out and silenced.

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The Trevor Project Response
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Well, this is tough feedback... but we're listening. As a current employee, I'm hopeful that you'll take me up on the offer to share your feedback in person, or even over email. Since I'm one of those individuals you've listed as one who will "terminate all of us who are below them," I'd like an opportunity to at least meet you and share how that is absolutely NOT the plan, but I know that we need to gain your trust first. Most importantly, as your teammate, I'd like to get to know you and your concerns better. Would you please reach out to me at trish.ferrett@thetrevorproject.org? I'll make time this week!
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