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American Diabetes Association

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American Diabetes Association reviews

2.8

35% would recommend to a friend

(434 total reviews)
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Charles “Chuck” Henderson

52% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

American Diabetes Association has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 434 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The American Diabetes Association employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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434 reviews
1.0
Jun 24, 2020
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Pros

I find the mission to be worthwhile.

Cons

Always in turmoil. Huge turnover in CEO position. Leadership always referring to mission, but actions contradict it. They’ve created a culture of competition and distrust rather than a cohesive team working toward same goal.Leadership prioritizes trying something new over best practices. CEO more concerned about building own brand than looking out for the good of the people ADA serves.

1.0
Aug 9, 2017
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Pros

Staff is passionate and resilient, despite many changes they've had to go through in a short period of time Mission is honorable Name still carries weight and recognition

Cons

Horrible leadership, incompetent, lacks strategy, little to no integrity, no transparency and horrendous communication! This organization is being sunk by its development staff and leadership: the only thing that matters to them is money and how they can get more; unfortunately they are ineffective, unfocused on the mission, dishonest and calculating, and led by a bunch of uppity, incompetent people who lie through their teeth about their accomplishments or lack thereof yet seem to get away with not producing a damn thing. Accountability is sorely absent. The People who actually know what they're talking about and can bring about changes are not empowered to do so, the place is top heavy with mediocrity.

1.0
Nov 11, 2016

what is the ADA doing??

Anonymous employee
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Pros

the pay for a director is good super chill work environment, like so chill boss is never there nice office in downtown, great views, no one is ever there so I get to enjoy it myself parking included in salary I could say I'm in the field and drinking wine at home and no one would know I have integrity and have always worked hard, therefore I am leaving this horrible work place

Cons

no clear vision passive aggressive commentary from leadership. Attended a 4 day training in Las Vegas, where leadership said they have new programs coming, want them to be outcomes based, but yet offered no clear picture of what new programs will achieve, how they will be implemented, and what we should do in the interim. Do what you like, what you think works for your market, and we will tell you what to do next is what they said. RVP and Area CEO never around, they don't know what they are doing, we all have to "raise funds" as part of job description, though Im supposed to raise 4x my salary but don't know what the funds go to. They have no kind of cultural awareness let alone cultural competency. How come the two communities that are disproportionately effected by diabetes (African American and Latinos) have programs cut that are targeted for them? How is this responding to the specific needs of this community? Raise all this money but where does it go? how come this is not shared with staff especially if we are supposed to support with raising it? What are the salaries of Area Executive Directors and Regional VP's. Why aren't these made available?

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