Pros
Some wonderful, passionate corps members and staff
Cons
-Salaries are based on a 50-hour work week. They won't tell you that during the interview, or when they give an offer. You'll find our when you start and assume that they have standard business hours. This means that all employees give TFA essentially a free week of work every month. Keep this in mind when you're impressed that they pay better than other nonprofits. They actually don't. -National team employees tend to have a much better experience than regional teams. If you're based in a region and expect to have any work/life balance, especially with family, forget it. -For an organization whose work is in large part supposed to help black and brown kids, the treatment of black and brown staff in regions like Philadelphia is problematic. The only staff with any longevity are white employees. Employee surveys and data is continually disregarded and the pattern continues. TFA is toxic for black and brown staff. If that's the case, can you imagine what the organization is doing to kids?
