Pros
Fully remote because of the pandemic.
Cons
PCF is by far the worst organization I have ever worked for, and I’m hoping this review will help others avoid the mistake I made in working here. There isn’t a single redeemable quality about this organization. The leadership team is awful; they have no regard for their employees’ livelihood, dignity, or work-life balance. I experienced every stereotype of a toxic work environment while working at Prostate Cancer Foundation. Executives will shout at employees, snap their fingers to get someone’s attention or tell them to hurry up, make rude and racist comments, demand you to work on weekends, text and call you after work hours, deny PTO even when requested over a month in advance, assign you tasks well outside of your job description, and treat you like you’re just lucky to have a job. So many people have quit over the past year that the staff has basically cut in half. That leaves less than 30 people in total in the organization, and people just keep quitting. The short-staffed organization is bad for everyone, especially anyone who is below the VP level of seniority. Even director-level positions get treated like personal assistants and if you’re a manager or an associate-level position you can count on the fact you will be exploited and underpaid. If you value diversity, equity, and inclusion, I would not advise working here. The staff is primarily White, and the leadership team is almost exclusively White. You can view PCF’s Leadership Team page on their website if you want to see it yourself. During my time there, my non-white coworkers and I would often share horror stories of the racist comments (intentional or not) we would hear from coworkers and leadership. Even the work the organization does cannot make up for the terrible working environment. It is a cancer research organization, so it is not patient-facing. Regular patients who call and ask for help are turned away and pointed to online cookie-cutter resources. But, for wealthy patients, the executive staff will navigate them to the best doctors and the best treatment. It’s deplorable. While most employees are underpaid, the executive staff have insanely inflated salaries by non-profit standards. Executive salaries for non-profits are made public, so it’s easy to prove this point. In 2020 the CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation made $1.3 million and the organization only raised about $36 million. Compare that to the Susan G. Koman non-profit, whose CEO made $631,413 in 2019, but the organization raised $74 million. Keep in mind the CEO’s inflated $1.3 million salary, and the other bloated executive salaries get paid for with donated money. My advice to anyone thinking of applying or working for the Prostate Cancer Foundation is to read the other bad reviews about this organization and believe them. If you’re a good worker or a good person, you don’t want anything to do with this place.