Pros
The coworkers are some of the best people you'll meet, sharing in the experience of being sucked into serving a "good cause" only to find themselves in a toxic environment. Sometimes it's funny if you have a sense of humor and can laugh at your daily situation, but this is a good place only if you have nowhere else to go and need a stepping stone to get to your next opportunity. Otherwise avoid at all costs.
Cons
Where do I even begin. There were so many red flags I should've listened to when I was being hired, like being asked to come in for an interview with an hour's notice. I had a bad gut feeling, but I ignored it because I was desperate for work, especially work that I thought would align with my values. I wish I read the other Glassdoor reviews before I accepted this position. They are all really accurate to the amount of mismanagement, hypocrisy, and delusion that fuels this nonprofit. Working with kids in art would be a lovely thing to devote your time to if it was run by someone who knew how to run an organization, didn't rely on unpaid interns to do everything, and didn't have a white savior complex. After a few weeks of working here, I realized the programming was directed at marginalized communities, but with a mindset dehumanizing to them. The Shakespeare Stairs mural in the Bronx was one of the most horrific examples of this. It was advertised as a "community project" when not a single person from the Bronx was listened to about what would adorn the stairs. The director herself decided that a cartoon image of Shakespeare would go into the mural, because of her problematic notion that people in the Bronx need to be more "cultured" with whatever she thinks is culture. When the artist from the Bronx stepped down due to this, the director didn't have enough integrity to be honest. She told everyone the artist quit because she wasn't a good enough artist to complete the project, when the truth was the artist quit because she was no longer painting something that engaged the community. At this point the cause of the organization was no longer worth the work conditions. I was being given large projects with little to no instructions all while having to make up tasks for the multitude of college/high school interns. Interns outnumbered actual staff members, creating more stress than help in making sure they were always doing something. Not to mention how rude the director is to everyone around her, except for her rich friends with questionable politics who pay her salary. She would spill paint on people's clothes and not even say "sorry," was constantly making a mess because someone else would clean it up. Staff were assigned chores in the office to essentially be her maids. This nonprofit is just a pet project for her ego and wallet, nothing more. The least this job could do is give sick days, but the director doesn't believe in them so I was consistently at my desk with stomach aches, fevers, and sneezing. It's a job that could easily be done remote, but requires 5 days in the cramped basement office. If you want to know more, just google "founder's syndrome" and read some articles on it. It describes the founder and director's psychology.