Pros
Novel, important & impactful mission; good connection to physicians, CGCs, other high risk women and great volunteers; nice health reminders; growing girlie brand name makes for recognizability & easier to "sell" to women creating access to wider professional & patient community
Cons
Poor chapter support because of small operations staff (with high turn over) at headquarters and inexperienced CEO; non-disclosure of use of fundraising dollars and inadequate reinvestment of funds in local chapters to promote or sustain growth (all funds raised by chapters goes to "a chapter bank account" and even though a sizable portion of those funds are to be reinvested in the city in which those funds were raised, headquarters does not distribute those funds accordingly (leaving volunteers to pay out of pocket for all or a portion of events, mailings, tabling props, etc) and will not disclose where the remainder (a large majority) of raised funds have been allocated/spent despite headquarters moving to a new posh office in downtown Chicago & hosting lavish VIPink parties in various US cities); sluggish or nonexistent distribution of bright pink materials (took 1.5 years after initial request to receive materials); CEO imparts unreasonable expectations on chapter volunteer leaders, takes volunteers for granted and talks down to, with a raised voice or interrupts staff/vendors/volunteers like they were disobedient children (happened on a # of occasions with various staff/vendors/volunteers); CEO more concerned with becoming famous than building her chapters in a customized way to fulfill the unique needs of high risk women in the given city....bottom line: a lot of work, great mission but limited resources and a rude, profit/celeb-status driven CEO.