Clean Air Task Force Reviews

Staff have not had performance reviews or either merit or COLA raises since at least 2020, even when surpassing fundraising and budget goals by a large margin. There are no clear goals or strategy for the organization; the leadership team says they've been working on a strategic plan for the last 18 months but there is still nothing to show for it. The same is true of their DEI work and other HR projects. The leadership team often says they are committed to transparency, but they share very little and keep saying "more to come." But nothing of substance every comes. Employees make well-thought out and planful suggestions on how to improve things, but leadership seems incapable of making any decisions to handle the rapid organizational growth. There is an over-reliance and over-spending on consultants, despite the major hiring explosion that has happened.

The senior management oversaw massive growth over the past few years and completely botched it. They provided no guidance to where and how staff should be added, constantly changed strategic guidance and did not shore up funding for all this growth until it was too late. This is a group of leaders who have spent their careers in small, parochial NGOs who have no clue how to run even a mid sized international organization. This stuff is not rocket science, but they refuse to do the obvious things that every other organization does because they're obessed with being the smartest kids in class. Voices who raise concerns are sidelined, people who fall in line are elevated. It is a real disservice to all the great and smart people that work there that the majority of management seems to see the task of actually running the organisation as a distraction from "the real work".