Coordinator - Anonymous employee A Wider Circle Employee Review

First, thank you for helping and for serving as part of the team. Second, and most importantly, we are very sorry for this having been a frustrating experience for you. We have let you down, and that is not what we ever want to do. For you to feel as you do is something we take very seriously and will always try to better ourselves in response. When someone has a bad experience or feels we do not respect people of all ages who work here, that is very concerning. And your comments are helpful; we will do our best to ensure that everyone feels valued and able to help in the work here and in the overall movement to end poverty. We do share the decision-making and get many opinions before we decide on almost every issue. That may not be apparent, but it is the case. Even this response - and any response we write as a public comment - will have multiple pairs of eyes before we submit. There is much more consensus than it seems for all that we do, and that is true for programmatic, personnel, and all strategic decisions. We can understand if it does not seem that way, but it is the case. We also have a large number of people who grow in the organization, and who stay longer than originally planned, and that increases every year. We also have people who state up front they want to work for a year and then who remain longer - though for some this does not work out well, and they do leave sooner. That is not something we ever love to see. Clearly we are not as good as we can be in our support of every team member, and comments like this can help us get there. We do have a person who leads all of our HR, and we can be better at helping the team to know how they can take complaints or issues to that person. We always try to pay as much as we can pay for every person who works here; again, we understand your thoughts on that and will always look at how we are supporting those who come to serve here. We certainly want everyone to feel respected and valued. We are going all-out in responding to poverty as the crisis it is; no question about that. And your comments clearly come from a place of compassion for others, and we respect that.