Great mission and team, terrible leadership - Program IGNITE Worldwide Employee Review

The people who left were amazing to work with and will certainly find employment in organizations where they are compensated fairly and appreciated for their contributions. (Remaining staff are wonderful but understandably super disillusioned.) Work/life balance was great because staff supported one another.

CEO is genuinely and disconcertingly not competent to run an organization. High turnover of employees who work directly with her (4 employees in the past three years) in development and operations. Enormous emphasis on fundraising to ensure CEO's compensation (250k+) which is greater than one third of operating budget and not at all commensurate with workload or organizational stature. Next highest paid employee makes far less than half of this salary - this employee does the bulk of the work and gets none of the credit. CEO gave herself raises and COLA adjustments while the three most recently hired staff received no pay adjustments at all during this time (two years).

Met some wonderful and dedicated people who would've made this organization an incredible place to work and thrive. Unfortunately, due to the actions of the CEO, that wasn't to be.

My time at IGNITE Worldwide was not overall terrible. In fact, I met some incredible, amazing people that I value very much. The issue with IGNITE is the CEO/Founder. She is the epitome of a person with Founder's Syndrome and no matter how hard people are working or the dedication they give, it's never enough. She refuses to do any work herself other than occasional meeting and loves to delegate even the most menial of tasks that she either isn't able to do herself or doesn't want to be bothered with. On top of all this, her salary (check the 990s) are a third of the total revenue for the organization and she is obsessed with money. It seems like the org is only really around to pad her income and not for the actual mission. The Board of Directors are the founder's three friends, so there is no oversight or accountability at all.