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I had an incredible five months working at the Fund for the Public Interest for Environment America. I was a canvasser and quickly promoted to Field Manager, where I enjoyed gradual accumulation of responsibilities and a supportive and lively work environment. I am friends with all of my coworkers, and frequently attend after work socials to talk about canvassing experiences and our personal lives. The directors are supportive, and work hard to meet each staff person where they are at and support them in attaining their canvassing goals. I personally find that the quota policy is harsh, and I was sad to see the rate at which talented and experienced canvassers get fired or formal warnings for missing quota. For this reason, I don't give the Fund a high job security and compensation rating. In every other way, I learned invaluable skills doing this work, learned new things every day in the field, and enjoyed it as my first managerial experience. I highly recommend this job to college students seeking summer employment and to anyone seeking to make a positive impact through their work.

Out of my fellowship class, over 10 of the 20 fellows quit before the 1st year (out of 2) ended. The fellowship is pitched as a crash course in environmental advocacy but in reality it is a way to trick young, passionate people into doing slave labor for the org (canvassing and recruiting). I would’ve accepted making minimum wage and below living wage if the job was truly what I was promised but instead I struggled to make ends meet while not even getting to do the environmental work I wanted to be doing. The management was also so disappointing. My staff director’s goal was to do as little work as possible while still making a salary. He did not want a fellow and yet took on multiple fellows- ruining our experiences. There is also no HR department so higher ups are allowed to tell blatant lies to fellows and are never held accountable.

As a canvasser you’re assigned about 70 different targets on average and you’re expected to knock on every one of their doors. They want you to have at least 20 interactions per day and expect you to make daily and weekly quota that varies from 180-250 per day depending on the location and the program. To make staff you have one observation day and three training days in which you have to hit 200 once within these 4 days. After which you will be on training quota for the next 10 days. Extremely deceptive about how they pay. If you do not make weekly quota you will be paid the minimum wage for the state that you worked in that week. To get incentive pay you have to have a certain % of mobile phone numbers and email addresses (always make sure you know your numbers). After every shift you are debriefed by either a field manager or director and they always tell you what you can improve on no matter how good or bad you did for the day. Bad days will feel terrible, good days will feel good. 80% luck 20% skill in this job. If you like interacting with people and being outside this is the job for you

Perhaps it's to be expected with an office run by kids in their early 20s, but leadership was a clique among directors and their favorite canvassers and field managers. At this particular office, two of the three directors were sleeping with their subordinates on canvass trips outside of Boulder. 

Fulfilling mission. Awful work environment. 

Everyone is knowledgeable and working hard on their causes. Amazing causes. there are loads of non-profits housed at this center working in favor of the public interest problems on a national level.

Im not sure how long i was there. It was a good work experience. A lot of talking and reading. Ultimately they accomplished what they were trying to do. Its a telephone campaigning job with good causes. They pay decent and were fun to work with. It's not for everyone but it's a decent job

If you want to start your career in environmental advocacy, this is a good option. There are all sorts of meaningful campaigns to work on, like global warming, clean energy, conservation. Learn all the ins and outs of making meaningful change.

I was a director with this organization, it was a great place with an awesome staff, and great management team. We even literally got to climb mountains for publicity stunts for our environmental campaigns.  The skills is developed will always help me in my life.

gained personal skills but very physically demanding. Hardest part of the job was walking all day especially in hot weather when not a lot of people wanted to hear about environmental issues.

Wonderful organization. Wish that i could have stayed in New Hampshire. Fundraising going door to door was a little scary at first but once you get used to it its fun. ^_^

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Associate 31 salaries reported	$39,451 per year
Environmental advocate 8 salaries reported	$42,531 per year
Director 7 salaries reported	$47,214 per year
Forester 4 salaries reported	$33,800 per year
Cleaner 2 salaries reported	$38,875 per year

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