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      3.3

      46% would recommend to a friend

      (1,849 total reviews)
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      Angela F. Williams

      75% approve of CEO

      39% positive business outlook

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      United Way has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,849 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The United Way 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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      2K reviews
      1.0
      Sep 12, 2022

      Overall, they have terrible communication and detrimental values

      Eviction prevention
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Flexible schedule - Independent work - A smaller nonprofit organization

      Cons

      - They laid off/eliminated 13 employees positions with one day's notice and then encouraged them to apply for their rental assistance program if needed - Confusing hierarchy of leadership - Bad management, bad money management, and lousy personnel - No communication, internally as well as externally - Overtly hostile and aloof CEO - No training, only legally required onboarding for temporary employees

      1.0
      Jun 20, 2022

      Tread carefully, very carefully.

      Director of collective impact
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I loved my community work. I loved the partners. I loved so many of my co-workers.

      Cons

      The culture. The toxicity. The abuse. The lack of awareness. The overall internalized dominant culture that touts itself as DEI work. The misogyny. Leadership, all of them.

      2.0
      May 11, 2022

      A Sad Downhill

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great colleagues, powerful mission, great opportunities to expand personal focus and goals.

      Cons

      Politics are always at play. It often felt like my time at United Way was a bad episode of Game of Thrones. Despite a real mission people seemed to be focused on moving themselves forward at the expense of all other. So often it felt like the mission suffered as leaders sabotaged their rivals.

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