Pros
Good pay, decent benefits. I had some pretty fantastic co workers.
Cons
I worked in the political advocacy department at NPAD. My time at this department was not pretty. Around 20 people left in 2021, the vast majority of those people being women of color. Staff in general continuously felt very discouraged, because they joined this org thinking it had the resources to allow them to do impactful work for their/other communities. But there is an extreme culture of no and the window of what is allowed for a campaign is extremely limited- no long term, deep community work. We bulldoze into a community, drop a couple thousand on digital ads, and claim the win if there is one. For a group of advocates, that is a pretty difficult and unstrategic method of working. Working at this organization was depressing. Seeing so many woman of color leave because they were treated with disrespect and were treated as admin rather than movement leaders. If you are reading this and you are someone who hates the non profit industrial complex, avoid the ACLU at all costs.
