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Mission Economic Development Agency

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Mixed feelings - Grants Manager Mission Economic Development Agency Employee Review

2.0
Feb 23, 2020
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Pros

You will find some of the kindest most passionate people on staff. ABP does amazing direct service work and should be applauded as having deep impact in the Mission. Great intentions as a whole. All direct service workers from ABP, CRE and MPN achieve amazing things on a daily basis with little resources. Exceptional staff at the entry and mid level. Extremely dedicated and hardworking. Most folks are bilingual or trilingual. It is a multicultural work place which is a huge plus. Reach of the organization is deeply impactful and they take on hard work.

Cons

Upper management is extremely self serving. Staff who are entry level (at 2-3 year range) are extremely under paid and over worked. Give folks a chance to move up if they are doing good work. Turn over rate is extremely high - with someone leaving it seems once a month. There is a lack of accountability when discussing annual bonuses upper management receives in contrast to lower tier staff. A lot of extreme favoritism - specific upper management staff have been reported for abusive language and treatment to HR by several people and there is little to no action taken as upper management are personal friends. While I was working there I saw an entire team leave due to mismanagement and no action taken to address issues. CEO makes 4x lower tier staff salaries and is known to be extremely patriarchal and verbally abusive - attempts to fire people without just cause

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
May 21, 2026
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Pros

You can move up if you want to play the game

Cons

Toxic leadership starting from the top. Piece of poop CEO that doesn’t connect with his staff and frequently butts heads with his employees, resulting in HR complaints that go nowhere. The place is far more concerned with their image than the impact. Misaligned goals mean coaches are burned out and constantly churned to do as much as possible without being properly trained. Tied to grants that have them focus on unrealistic goals for staff and dilute the impact of their work constantly. Recent layoffs asking most vulnerable staff to take pay cuts and lose benefits that probably could have prevented if CEO wasn’t paying himself 400k to go to conferences and inflate his ego. That’s what this place cares about though, not their work.

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