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Great people treated horribly by obtuse management - Anonymous employee Work for Progress Employee Review

2.0
5 Oct 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people working the campaigns (ie. entry-level, interns, canvassers, etc.) are genuinely good people with good intentions. The campaigns help raise awareness and money for important issues – although the network often falls into the trap of performative politics rather than focusing on fundamental issues.

Cons

Upper management operates on a model of abuse where lower-level employees are overworked at poverty wages. They justify this by saying they "pay little to make donations go as far as possible" but it's very clear that higher-level employees are doing just fine while entry-level employees are struggling to get by. The whole culture is weirdly trying to act like a socialist nonprofit (ie. making employees staying at each others' houses rather than booking hotels, saying the benefits are spread to increase their value, social justice messaging, etc.) while truly operating as a top-down capitalist corporation. It's also pretty clear that Doug Phelps is using Fund for the Public Interest as part-pocketfund, part financial catalyst for his aspirations to run for office.

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5.0
21 Oct 2020
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Pros

Good workplace culture, fun projects

Cons

Long hours and sometimes communication problems

2.0
5 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Their campaigns work on important causes, and winning a campaign is a good thing for people and the country.

Cons

This organization, and many of the other organizations within the public interest network, have a really hard time with employee retention when it comes to the canvass director and campaign organizer roles. In a lot of cases you end up working so many hours per week it works out to be less than a minimum wage salary. In many cases the canvassers that you hire as a director, make more an hour than you do. There are a few situations involving canvasser's concerns/safety that were not handled well by higher management in my opinion. I also feel that you are very much just a number in the overall organization of the team. When myself and others raised concerns or decided to quit because we were uncomfortable with the way things were done, the management seemed more than willing to drop us and find the next person who would be willing to blindly follow their game plan. Because of that, I really didn't feel valued.

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