My Nonprofit Reviews

I volunteered with the Indiana AFSP for 5 years just to be thrown out like garbage! (Which Indiana chapter was just given the best chapter award mind you). I was called and told because of a complaint I was no longer allowed to volunteer. I was so upset, so I decided to dig deeper and require a better explanation. To my surprise the original complaint was not even a thing. I was on a phone call with the Indiana Director and another higher up, when the higher up told me that no one made the original complaint that the Indiana Director said was made! So when I asked the Indiana Director that I’ve volunteered/worked with for the last 5 years wtf on the call she said NOTHING!!

As the phone call goes on I am told I am still unable to volunteer as I have a list of complaints against me…I said “ok, humor me!” From supposedly telling a “Pride” Official that I would not put on a mask while I was outside (which isn’t true) but because a board member that doesn’t like me said I did do that I’m guilty, because he was a board member and they “have to take his word”!! In the 5 years I volunteered I was chair of a walk for 1 year and co-chair for 2 in the first 3 years. I was told after by the Indiana Board President that I was being asked to step down because after 3 years they wanted to rotate the chair to a new person in the committee. (Even though this person has been a different walk chair for much longer). But I went along with it. Then what would have been my 5th year as a volunteer my co-chair for my 2nd-3rd years was starting her 4th year as walk chair, so I said something to the board president that asked me to step down a year prior. She said it didn’t apply to my co-chair because her first 2 years were co-chair not chair; just as 2 of my years were! So I stepped down from the committee for a year to focus on my mental health because obviously AFSP didn’t care about it! I came back to the committee for 2023 and boy do I regret it. The year went fine, walk was great; then the bull crap started flying again. This is when I’m told on the most recent phone call that the now walk chair is complaining that I don’t communicate and that I’m too difficult to work with! To keep it shorter, basically the chair was saying I wasn’t communicating with her about some decisions which weren’t true, 1 OF WHICH I PROVED TO THEM by showing them texts of the communication I made and all they could say is “she’s the chair so we have to take her word for it”.

I am absolutely dumbfounded, people that I thought cared about me flat out lying to and about me and not one of them blinking an eye to defend me. OH, but don’t forget they had the audacity to tell me I could come to the walk and raise money and walk, just not volunteer! I will NEVER volunteer for them again even if they let me. They are supposed to care about people and mental health but if it doesn’t affect them then they don’t care. Luckily I got married in 2022 because if I hadn’t found my person, this is the kind of BS that would have put me in a tailspin and into a depression fighting for my life. Shame on the Indiana leadership and any other ones that treat people the way I was treated. They don’t care about the volunteers, they care how much money their walk made. Since I was one of the go-getters for sponsorships I guess some others will have to make up for their losing me. Good Riddance AFSP, I’ll put my time and money into an organization that cares about their people!