Disappointing Organization - Fundraising Coordinator Muscular Dystrophy Association Employee Review

- Misaligned mission, MDA states they are supporting families, but have moved all support to research and pharma companies, eliminating most family support programs that actually improve quality of life. Cures are important, but building quality of life programs while waiting for a cure is more important and the families will tell you that same thing. - Lack of communication throughout ALL departments. Job was spent completing multitidude of spreadsheets instead of building relationships with donors and partners. - Very old technology and outdated training systems, ongoing conflicting information on how to do your job, so you often felt like no matter what you did, you were going to get it wrong. - Mismanaged Covid-19 crisis and furlough of employees and it feels very unethical and calculated. Furloughed employees told they would have benefits while being furloughed, but now notice has been given of benefits being discontinued. Supervisors are being told that employees will be coming back to work, but information being relayed to furloughed employees is ambiguous at best, dishonest at worst. - As thier furlough of at least 400 employees has unfolded, it appears this may have been a longer term plan and Covid19 has sped it up. It's disappointing that a 65 year old company can be taken out by a crisis like this because of poor planning and having an innovative team in upper management. - A proper layoff would have been more honest and allowed employees to move on instead of "waiting" to go back to something that won't be there.