My Nonprofit Reviews

I started with PAL Humane Society as a foster volunteer years ago. Over the course of about 2 years I fostered dozens of dogs & a couple of cats. While I was a foster volunteer I did not interact very often with the founder Kathi but with the employees of which were awesome. The employees worked there tails off to make this organization work while Kathi was usually off shopping or coming up with some "new idea". I was then offered a job with PAL, that I was very excited about even though I had been told about Kathi's attitude & the way she ran things. I soon realized what it really meant to work for PAL & really got to see behind the scenes. While I worked there full time I also always had a foster animal in my home and was told I still did not due enough even though I worked for free several times a week (as she did not pay overtime). The employees who worked at PAL along with the volunteers had to come into work everyday hoping Kathi was in a good mood. It was very common for her to yell & belittle her staff, as she says she isn't a people person so deal with it. She has been open since 1993 but for all those years she hasn't been able to make PAL what it should be because she doesn't know how to run a business. In 2007 PAL was given half a million dollars and the money was wasted on renovating rented buildings that she decided would become such great things (they all sit empty now full renovated & were never used for what they were suppose to). She would come in every week & have a new idea & just do it & spend the money without thinking about it. She hand picked her board members so she could control them & what ever she says goes. She did "lay off" the Humane Officer when she was on medical leave from giving her mother a kidney. Her excuse was she didn't have the money to pay her but she turned around and hired somebody else at a high pay & gave her right hand man a raise at which combined was higher than the Humane Officers pay. I wish the community could see what PAL is really like. Yes they have helped animals & seniors but if the money had been used like it was suppose to be it would have helped so many more animals & people. Kathi is a master at putting on a great face to donors & the public & then turning & doing whatever she wants with it. I ask donors & the community to look at her & this organization carefully & really know what you are giving to.

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