My Nonprofit Reviews

I was a volunteer board member for a couple years. I'm a survivor of suicide loss. I was stunned at how fast the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Area Director and other national leaders and local volunteers turned from welcoming me, into pressuring me to give and raise money and a lot of free labor. I was asked to solicit money from a 20-year old who just lost her best friend to suicide--not to mention my own family and friends who they wanted money from year after year. What really spoiled the AFSP for me was going to their national conferences, seeing how decked-out they are and knowing that their executives get paid over $300,000 per year!!! All this and not any programs of quality in my community. I say this now to anyone thinking of donating or volunteering with the AFSP: you deserve better and there are better suicide-prevention organizations doing real work out there.