Low pay, bad benefits, incompetent leadership - Anonymous employee Prolanthropy Employee Review

1.0
3 Feb 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You get to meet pro athletes and support their charitable initiatives. You will get to travel across the country.

Cons

If you want to grow at this company it is 100% on you. You will not be given a mentor or a career path. You will be asked to do simple, repetitive work. This work is often called "fast-paced" and "intense." It is neither of those things. When you travel for work you will be asked to leave on a Sunday. You are not compensated for working an extra day. The travel is often done by car if the drive is under 10 hours. Senior leadership holds the company together, but not by way of skill. Simply by staying loyal to the company they are treated as the "in" crowd. Despite their proclaimed valuation of loyalty, they will be the first people to blame their failures on others. I once sent an email to a sponsor asking for more details on an event; I was pulled into a room by a senior leader and cursed at. To this day, I don't know why. I have never had a similar experience at any other profession since. You may be expected to use your own laptop for work. If you leave at 5pm or slightly after you will be viewed as skipping out on work, despite the fact that you may have only been assigned 2-4 hours of tasks to complete that day. If you're thinking "well, use the remaining time in the day to get more work done!" Well, believe me, there isn't much more work. For every event, the marketing team had the same 5 preparatory tasks to complete. These tasks took about 1 hour a piece. You would have maybe 3 events per month. You do the math.... I am not quick to thrown around derogatory terms to describe somebody, but the CEO of Prolanthropy was. In my time their he made jokes about people with disabilities, immigrants, etc.

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5.0
10 June 2022
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Pros

I had a great experience working there. I was able to learn more about philanthropy and how athletes develop their foundations for their community they want to assist. The people were great to work with.

Cons

The position I had was temporary as a contractor so I did not get a lot of training under my belt, I just had to adapt as soon as I was in the office.

1.0
19 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Working with pro athletes seemed glamorous at first but that sentiment quickly faded once reality set in. See list of cons.

Cons

The business model by nature is volatile because it's hinged on athlete performance, popularity, and behavior - and there were definitely issues with the latter. The company is very disorganized and dysfunctional resulting in vital tasks going unfinished, wasteful spending, poor internal and external communications, poor vendor relationships, unsatisfied clients, angry donors/board members, and high employee turnover. During my tenure, the number of employees went from 20+ down to 6. Leadership would frequently change internal workflows and structure on a whim and when it wasn't necessary. Employee leadership was not transparent and would flat out lie to the rest of the company on a regular basis. Expect job compensation to be poor and don't expect any pay raises unless you're related to the CEO or attend the same mega-church. To that point, the company is rife with nepotism. They have built a reputation for not paying vendors on time if at all. During the COVID shutdown, the CEO sent a company wide text message at 5am containing a link to a strange AI-generated news clip of an anchor praising his "pure-blood" brothers and sisters for not being vaccinated when over half the company was intelligent enough to have been vaccinated. I gave this company the benefit of the doubt too many times and it ended up hurting my career. I urge anyone applying here to reconsider. Times are tough but this company isn't worth the headache and I can't imagine they will remain in business for much longer.

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