Mission and Employee Focused Org - Sr Training Specialist Credit Builders Alliance Employee Review

-This company checks a lot of the toxic non-profit blsht at the door. Work/life balance is encouraged and "meaningful work" isn't weaponized against staff. When things do become stressful, the energy remains supportive and calm. -Staff diversity speaks to the company's values -Newer senior leadership has strong direction, and has made a lot of improvement from former executives

-Everyone is slightly underpaid -Management can be disorganized at times -Policies surrounding work hours such as PTO, flex time, work-day hours, and in-office attendance are outdates and could be more flexible (but a "close-your-laptop" culture is ultimately a fair tradeoff, in my opinion)

Innovative mission. Really makes a concrete difference for clients. Affecting positive change in the community right next door. You can always have more responsibility in a smaller org than a larger one: potential for learning and career advancement.

CBA in its founding years was the baby of its then-CEO, Vikki Frank, and is very much an outgrowth of her personality, since she was the only employee at first. Sadly, her personality was an ugly one: passive-aggressive, reactive, and petty. It's a shame for a place with such a worthwhile mission, wonderful clients, and impressive stakeholder backing to be run so poorly. When I was there, the entire staff save one quit, suddenly bailed to go to grad school, or was fired. The whole atmosphere was suffused with paranoia, schizophrenia, and recrimination. Beyond bizarre. I was one of the ones pushed out, but I'm not just speaking from sour grapes. It seems that leadership has since changed, thankfully, and I can't speak to how it is now. But, there are so many wonderful organizations in the same area doing great work with a less toxic atmosphere--so I'd be careful.