RAINN reviews about "people"

The leadership at this organization is straight out harmful. RAINN's mission is "to carry out programs to prevent sexual violence, help victims, and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice," but that mission seems to end at the front doors of the organization. There are many survivors, myself included, who choose to work at RAINN because they want to create a positive outcome from their trauma. Instead they find themselves constantly dismissed and devalued. During the fallout of the 2022 Business Insider article - "Insiders say RAINN, the nation's foremost organization for victims of sexual assault, is in crisis over allegations of racism and sexism" - as employees tried to deal with either having been personally victimized by leadership or with learning that their coworkers had been going through this hardship, the message from leadership was that if we needed to take a step back, we'd be the ones failing survivors - ignoring the fact that so many of us also fell into that category. I think the services that RAINN offers are vital, but I don't believe that the price for them can be the mental health and the dignity of the people doing the actual work.

No work-life balance, will push you past your breaking point, highest raises NEVER even match inflation, toxic managers and "People Team" is truly just a front for legal.

I worked at RAINN for 4 years and they "forgot" I worked there and never gave me an evaluation, and then when I mentioned evals are how people get increases in pay, they said I was not eligible for a pay increase, despite their error for 4 years. I even asked about an evaluation. They also sent me a congrats on working here for 90 days after I worked there for over 3 years.

There needs to some form of evaluation for senior leadership to hold them accountable and also to make sure that feedback is being relayed to them and documented. It can be hard when someone says, "Oh I didn't know that- no one ever said anything to me" or "That never happened".

Google the Business Insider article about RAINN - enough said

Not a good response from leadership since the Business Insider article. Slow to do anything to make change and a lot of shifting the blame and not focusing on accountability. Underpaid despite being expected to work over 40 hours a week, but maybe that's all non profits.

Unfortunately, upper management is not in a good place. In the last six weeks, six of the 7 members of senior leadership have resigned due to the president of the organization being difficult to work with and having poor leadership and intuition.

RAINN’s work culture is astonishingly toxic. I personally experienced and witnessed so much racism, sexism, ableism… not to mention, my colleagues and I were paid practically nothing. People were punished for taking any time off. At the end of the day, it’s a top-down problem. The CEO Scott Berkowitz does not care about the mission, he only cares about profiting off of survivors’ pain. He uses abuse and manipulation tactics with employees throughout the organization. I can’t advise you enough to not work here for the sake of your own mental health.