My Nonprofit Reviews

NAMI is way too cozy with pharmaceutical companies. Maybe less than before being investigated by Sen. Grassly of Iowa in 2009, but still enough to be influenced in its teaching programs and advocacy. Ask you state and local affilliates what percentage of their income is received from Provider companies or Drug companies.

I am not an active member now, as I see that both NAMI and the MHA are going down this same path. I have served in the past on local boards of both organizations, and on NAMI state Board as an officer. NAMI has become rigid in its programs, too, requiring a "by the Book" method for facilitation of its sponsored support groups, at least according to a local person, who was a longtime member of its local affiliate's BOD,