Community Initiatives Reviews

Board: Only cares about the bottom line. Always worried about getting more money in the door and does not understand that you need proper systems and proper staff in place in order to support the money coming in the door. Lack of accountability for their mistakes or proper due diligence in hiring effective Leadership. No awareness or proper follow up for the employee's serious concerns about Leadership and overall morale. Seems as though they don't really care. Leadership (CEO): Completely in over their head. Has no idea how to run an organization, let alone what the business is about. Complete disregard for the employees and sees absolute no value in them. Sees all employees as replaceable, no matter how long their tenure is. No Leadership abilities. Has issues with confrontation. Never prepared for meetings (never reads emails). Turnover: Yes, high volume work. However, employees don't leave because they are unhappy with their work or the clients, they leave because of poor Leadership. 90% of the employees that have left the organization in the last 6 years is because of poor leadership. So much potential to be a great organization, but Leadership and the Board can never be aligned with what the organization and the employees really need.

There is so much turnover caused by terrible leadership. Executive leadership is incompetent, lacks strategic thinking ability, and cannot lead. The board hired a sitting board member who is not suited for the role. The CEO makes uninformed decisions, does not understand the basics of the work her staff is doing, and in no way can she command a room/meeting. She has no concern for the staff or CI’s projects. The entire client services team (8 people) have left within a year (all of the finance team turned over the previous year) and more projects (clients) have left under her leadership in the last year than years before. She takes no responsibility and blames it on anyone else that she can. Even though staff desperately try to make improvements to service delivery and systems, the only input she listens to is the HR director who only cares about patting himself on the back. Those two are two peas in a pod, so long as he buys her coffee everyday. Who is worse - someone who is incompetent and impressionable or someone who is incompetent and lazy? Either way CI loses.