CEO / Founder is a sociopathic narciccist who treats her employees like dirt. This “charity” does nothing to help anyone. She pays herself hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and that doesn’t include the personal expenses she writes off as agency expenses. I’m ashamed that I was ever a member of this board.
Review from Guidestar
Avoid, avoid, avoid. The CEO is a master at manipulating reality, and misrepresented countless times for nearly a year that "funding was just around the corner" when it never materialized, nor were certain milestones achieved to obtain that funding--promises of contracts that never materialized, PPMs that were said to exist but were never executed, etc., etc.. Most importantly, she played an opaque game of paying some while not paying others then paying the others just enough to continue to work for her to show that she had a "team" working for her. Yes, they were working but many were not paid or paid in full. Great external persona but a master manipulator.
Someone please investigate this organization's finances and reporting methods. I have witnessed so many misrepresentations and outright lies by the CEO to the board and to sponsors. CEO is abusive, secretive, and highly overpaid (including her husbands consulting fee).
Review from Guidestar
It is not surprising that this nonprofit does not have an impact report, since most "impact" is estimated or inferred from work that other organizations actually perform. It's shocking that it is even considered a nonprofit, since there is virtually no donor base or traditonal fundraising/stewardship.
Many, like myself, left emotionally battered due to the dysfunctional micromanagement from the CEO. Employees are undermined, lied to, bullied into submission and (at times) yelled at by the CEO. Complaints fall of the COO's deaf ears, and the board is stocked with sycophants who are given guilded, incorrect pictures of operations. Over the last 10 years, more than 25 employees have left due to the CEO's actions, and those brave enough to confront the CEO or COO have been branded "unprofessional" or slandered.
This is a nonprofit in title only.
Review from Guidestar