Resources For The Future Reviews

The management of the place has been schizophrenic. Complete overhauling and restructuring of the program structure twice in the span of two years -- without ever admitting it made huge mistakes in the redesigns -- and completely turning over the leadership and core staffing in Communications and Development, all while fundraising continues to suffer. Unsurprisingly morale is poor. The organization has no sense of its core mission: is it a DC think tank? an environmental economics department outside of a university? a wonky brainiac best friend to corporations that purport to care about the environment? perhaps a bit of all of the above? The management and senior leadership is secretive, opaque, and generates no trust and maintains no faith from the researchers and staff. There is no avenue for advancement for most personnel without a PhD in economics, and there is an unabashed First Class Citizen/Second Class Citizen division. A brand-new, baby Ph.D. will walk into the organization with more salary and prestige than a highly qualified masters-trained professional with decades of experience in the sector. To some extent that is like many think tanks -- there is the "think" and there is the "tank" -- but RFF skews more toward that dichotomy than most.

Salary, but as a non-profit 'green' job, you should expect this coming in to any non-profit in the Metro Region. The retirement contributions are age-driven and I'd prefer them to offer the same to all employees (the full fifteen percent) as this feels like an age discrimination thing--with the advantage being on those with more time spent on the planet.