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Strategic Capacity Group

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Run away, run away - Anonymous employee Strategic Capacity Group Employee Review

1.0
25 Jan 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice gym in the building. But people don't join or stay with organizations because of nice gyms and snacks and happy hours and fancy office buildings. They stay because the management actually takes their ideas seriously and listens. They stay because hard work and achievement are rewarded, not brown nosing, and because their supervisors stand up for them. They stay because supervisors and management actually try to get to know them and their challenges, and put their employees' needs above the client's -- the way you get good service for clients is to treat your employees well. They stay because they get meaningful mentoring not unprofessional demeaning feedback that doesn't help them grow.

Cons

Leadership talks the talk, but does not walk the walk. Entire leadership team has no idea what they're doing in development work or how to manage people or develop and retain staff (mostly academics or people who worked for mom and pop non-profits before, oh, wait, this is a mom and pop non-profit, literally). They create a toxic work environment by micro-managing and picking favorites who are not necessarily qualified over people who are actually doing a good job. One senior manager did not know what 2CFR200 was, although 99% of the funding is USG grants and cooperative agreements. Implementation model is a complete waste of taxpayers' money and out of step with the prevailing wisdom of participatory design and partner-led programming. 99% turnover over the last 3 years, and everyone I know is looking for another job so they can leave before they get fired, which inevitably happens when you fall out of favor with the leadership for some reason that has nothing to do with the quality of your work. Or before someone else gets promoted for no reason when you work your butt off and can't get promoted. And there is no performance management system -- going back to talk the talk and not walk the walk. Governance of the organization is totally out of line with accepted non-profit practices with at least two members of upper management also serving on the Board. Bottom line, unless you're desperate and need a stepping stone to somewhere else, if you're a development professional with some degree of self-respect and pride in your profession or someone looking to get into it, stay away. If I could give it negative stars I would.

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Pros

Growth potential is high based on performance

Cons

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1.0
7 Jun 2024
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Pros

None. Stay away from this burning dumpster fire of an organization If I could give zero starts I would. It is that bad of a place to work.

Cons

-Narcissistic President who only wants to make as much money as she can, legally or illegally, while crushing her employees -Crooked HR and Finance Department. They do the President's bidding regardless of the ethical consequences -Blatantly falsely billing the Department of State -Forces employees to "modify" their hours to ensure the company can make more money -One employee holds the threat of a lawsuit over the President if she doesn't get what she wants -Will hire fresh graduates from college, underpay them while working them to the bone, then dump you before you get a pay raise to maximize the President's ludicrous salary -Board does nothing to reign in the illegal activities nor the overly paid President -Illegally mixes her for profit and non-profit companies for employees and funding -Members of the senior staff will post fake positive reviews on Glassdoor to make the company look better -Unless want to be bullied, treated like a moron, and potentially have to testify when the inevitable investigations arise, stay away from this place!

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