Pros
- The mission of the foundation helps you get through the tough times, and lifts you up through the good times
- Without question, You work with the best and the brightest in any respective field, at all levels of the organization.
- The foundation's clients (grantees) are some of the best and brightest as well, and are highly passionate about the work that they do
- Operates more like a corporation than a grass-roots 501c3 (can be good and bad)
- Good information sharing from executive management. More face-to-face time with execs than your typical medium sized organization.
- Excellent suite of benefits
- Excellent physical work space with a strong emphasis on the employee, alternative working styles, etc
Counterpoints:
- An appropriate amount of growth/management opportunities availible to those up to the task. One can't complain about having inexperienced managers as well as having no growth opportunities. The inexperienced managers are in place because they were given the opportunity to manage.
- The foundation is highly diverse, particuarly within Global Development, Global Health, and IT. You will work with individuals from all over the word, with rich experiences from a multitude of organizations and cultures.
Cons
- Consensus driven conservative decision making. As a result it is difficult and generally more difficult costly to acomplish tasks and projects compared to other non-profit/for-profit organizations
- High number of IT consultants/contractors can make knowledge retention and consistent strategies/methodologies a challenge (noticiable full-time hiring ramp up within the last 6 months though)
- Operates more like a corporation than a grass-roots 501c3 (can be good and bad)
- Limited process consistency across the various grant-distributing facets of the organization that should run in a similar manner. This makes IT solutioning difficult.
