If you have no other options, choose this job - Anonymous employee Impact Employee Review

Salary: In theory the salary is do able if you're placed in a city with a responsible cost of living but that is not that case in most cities Impact staffs. Additionally Impact keeps costs low by transferring cost to their employees. That means no per diems when you're asked to travel to Boston or Denver at least twice a year for 2-3 weeks at a time. That also means a lot of up front costs like gas, printing, and pizza night for the entire fundraising office are paid for by employees who wait between 2 weeks and 2 months for reimbursements. Recruitment: Working as a campaign organizer means spending at least 25% of your time recruiting for your own position. Because of the high turn over rate with Impact, organizers must recruit graduating seniors all year around to fill the constantly open positions. They have an entire system in place and it involves hours of conference calls, email blasting every employee of a university, and dialing the same list of students phone numbers 6 times a night. On top of that you'll have to coordinate a visit to a college and play the role of recruiter while setting up events on tiny budgets and telling every senior you meet how much they'll love this job. You'll be expected to front most the costs for these visits too. The Fund For the Public Interest: As a campaign organizer for Impact you are asked to represent and work for the Fund for the Public Interest, an organization with a well documented history of busting unions. During the time you work for the Fund, about 4 months a year, you will mostly be expected to work 8 AM - 11 PM Monday through Friday and at least another 5 hours on Saturday. The Fund works on a ridiculously high turn over hiring model that puts even Impact to shame, so you'll be tasked with recruiting wonderful people and letting them go quickly after hiring them. On top of staffing, managing and training a 15-50 person fundraising office, Impact organizers must also fundraise door to door or on the street for an average of 3 days a week while working for the Fund. Despite taking on all this responsibility, you will be tasked with running a pre-selected national campaign, with established talking points that you'll be expected to repeat until the summer is over Training: Aside from training on political organizing, Impact does not provide sufficient training on managing interns or staff. Despite being in a management position, you are given, at best, cursory training on how to manage sexual harassment in the work place and you are given no diversity training before being put in charge of a fundraising office or its hiring process.