Access Group Reviews

At a glance, Access Group appears to have interesting programs in financial education, political advocacy, grants and professional development for higher education professionals. However, the organization isn't achieving meaningful outcomes in any of these areas, making them pretty much irrelevant. They haven't let go of their corporate identity, including their top-down management style, meaningless jargon and outdated tactics that don't make any sense and aren't aligned with any measurable goals. No one is really fooled by their claims to be a "nonprofit."

I worked at Access Group for about a year, and could not leave fast enough! This organization is poorly run, there is clear misalignment between their stated goals, strategic plan, and actual implementation. The people are nice enough to work with, just monumentally incompetent. When verifiable ideas are presented, they are immediately shot down or given the long slow "we'll look into this..." death. The reason good ideas are shot down is precisely because they are verifiable. The organization has no genuine interest in providing access to law schools at an affordable rate (despite their mission) because their funding comes from student loans. Much like the Truth campaign, whose funding is from cigarettes, this organization spins its wheels, restructures, reorganizes, and rehires so they cannot be held to any accountable standard for what they do with their $400M raked in loans from former law students.