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GRACE Communications

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Environmental mission undermined by toxic leadership - Director GRACE Communications Employee Review

1.0
25 Mar 2018
Recommend
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Pros

GRACE is a small environmental non-profit and has a handful of experts in food and water, along with a subsidiary company (Mondays Campaigns) that works on health awareness marketing, which is good, better than working for some Big Evil Corp. GRACE has some consumer-facing websites about healthy, seasonal food as well as water usage that are unique and useful. It also has a handful of food and water policy experts that are a pleasure to work with. The environment is low-key, and deadlines tend to be permissive. It's well-funded, endowed with 30-40 million $ of the owner's money derived from early investments with Berkshire Hathaway (you can see this on their public financial forms).

Cons

Management is a toxic waste dump. Seems more like a jobs program for the rich owner's friend circle than an actual company. You can go years without hearing directly from the decision-makers. Where are we heading? What are our goals? What's the ultimate focus of this company? No one knows. Legal and HR are no help, routinely treating employees with hostility, as if everybody is a leech who mooches off the company's precious benefits -- except for a couple of their teacher's pets, of course. The Mondays Campaigns is an even bigger disaster. Near-constant turn-over and totally unprofessional managers as evidenced by the many negative reviews here. Career-wise GRACE is a complete dead-end. I've never heard of anyone ever being promoted, so prepare to turn into a potted plant.

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5.0
14 Nov 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good job and good people

Cons

Low pay and not much opportunity to advance.

2.0
29 Apr 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay and benefits. Working on important environment and public health causes. Most colleagues are good people who care about the work.

Cons

Grace Communications, and specifically its sister org The Monday Campaigns, has a lot of employees who are smart, talented and know their respective fields like marketing, environmental/public health impact, web dev..., but the senior leadership holds them back. They are focused on getting good results, but are often unwilling to invest in projects and put faith in their staff to achieve it. They micromanage and have an outdated knowledge of marketing/advertising, and they don't let their employees take ownership and implement best practices. Poor management also leads to more conflict than there should be - instead of creating a collaborative space, their style divides employees. Management is unable to get rid of dead weight who make racist/sexist/ageist comments and/or their egos get in the way of producing higher quality work. And don't trust HR to have your back and advocate for you. All this results in demotivated employees and a high turnover rate. Those that do stick around are either unhappy or checked out.

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