United Way reviews

Bad senior management, inequitable and noticeable salary gap between senior management and rest of staff, exploits staff, no pay raise or title change, no real results, very top down in management and strategy, very meetings oriented but no yielding no decisions or results, fails to promote staff, terrible communication from senior leadership. Too top down, too many managers, not enough staff not innovative, very slow to change, respond, act. Very disorganized and very reactive, instead of proactive. There was A LOT of turnover when I was there. Over 25 staff left in the first year of the new CEO - Sheena Wright. She was very MIA in her first year and was trying to change the organization, mission, brand, structure and culture. Not clear how much of that actually changed but she brought in a lot of her own people and there was no transparency in her decisions. Staff do not trust leadership and do not feel like they can be honest and speak up. There is little confidence that things will change.

Waaaay too much turn over. Many non-profits experience this, but that doesn't make it less frustrating! When we had middle management there was an awful feeling of being their peons, they carried themselves so haughtily and were distant from staff. Once they left we all reported directly to the CEO, but now there's not enough accountability for staff that don't pull their weight. As an organization I think United Way's mission is noble, but personally I feel like they take on too much with not enough impact...they need to hone in on just a few key issues. They also need to not be so worried about politics...about what so-and-so will think if we do this, or how so-and-so will act if we do that. I understand we fundraise from influential people but that doesn't make them our lord and master.