Reading Partners reviews

No salaries , sometimes inflexible but no problem in balancing work and life.

The Executive Team is often ineffective and serves as a bottle-neck in the decison-making process. It is often unclear which decisions need to be made by the Executive Team alone and which decisions have been delegated to other leaders in the organization. The CEO (Karine Apollon, not Michael Lombardo), despite being very generously compensated, has not effectively articulated her vision for the organization, has failed to cultivate authentic and healthy partnerships with regional Executive Directors, has focused little to no energy on building and improving the organizational culture, does not seem to see fundraising as a core function of her job, and has repeatedly intervened to "micromanage" individual decisions (such as individual promotion and salary decisions) that should be delegated to regional and national leaders. It is a real shame because there are so many dedicated and talented people at Reading Partners, and the program works, but these shortcomings in the highest levels of leadership can be extremely frustrating and demoralizing.