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A typical day at work consists of being reminded that you will be kicked out if you're not able to get strangers to talk to you. 

Training skips over the most important part (how to get stops) and you are supposed to pick that up from your coworkers or simply fail. 

Management are rude and keep piling on the stress until someone breaks. Compensation policy is misleading, you are not paid a livable hourly wage and your commission has a 40% chance to be cancelled for reasons out of your control. (you are not paid commission unless the person you stopped donates for a set number of months, if they cancel, you get nothing).  

The hardest part of the job is doing the job. You are expected to annoy all and everyone out on the streets (in all weather conditions!) with cheesey lines until someone takes pity and stops for you. Then you regurgitate the lines you memorized like a robot and hope the person donates, otherwise, you'll have to regurgitate more lines at them (till they walk away). 

Management have a very smart way of hiring international or college students who have no choice and fall for this type of job. They will then brainwash you in the recruitment into thinking you're gonna make triple what you end up making (and dont even mention the commission policy till you're on the field). The workplace culture is based on toxic positivity and no mental health awareness whatsoever. Either a keep a happy face or lose your job!

The most enjoyable part of the job is that some fundraisers are very nice. I don't understand why those people decide to keep working there, but they are still one of the most enthusiastic people i encountered. 

In conclusion, avoid! unless you like standing in the cold and stopping people with cheesey lines for an unlivable wage (To each to their own, I guess).

I actually loved most of my time here! Great culture, amazing team and people you work with, the compensation is so worth it, and the city manager is freaking awesome. 

Upper management sucks, which is why overall is 3 stars and the rest are 5 lol. The communication between the regional managers and our manager was minimal when it came to important things like reimbursement for travel trips, leaving our manager unpaid for weeks before they finally paid her. I remember in the beginning of my job when an employee quit because they never paid her correctly, always skimping money out of checks and not taking necessary action within a legal time frame to take care of it. It happened to quite a few of us, including our manager. 

This is a sales position. It was great experience and fun to work outside on the streets every day. There are pros and cons to that, like how its booty cold in the winter where I live and snows a ton so be prepared to be canvassing outside most likely. And it gets super hot in the summer, so being prepared for all weather circumstances is crucial!

For me, the hardest part of the job was having the motivation to stay consistent with sales quota. Some people burn out easily with positions like this, so it is something to keep in mind. As well as upper management obviously.

Overall, super nice pay and bonus structure! Awesome coworkers, fun job. You might just run the risk of frustrating communication with upper regional management.

I was very excited for this job just for it to turn out to be very unprofessional. Stuff I’ve learned about the job/information was not given to me during first day of orientation, instead I learned about it on my very first day in the field. You MUST get two donors by your third day in the field or else you’re not “fully staffed” this job stresses you and also guilt trip you into getting donors. You’re also only getting pay $15 unless you’re fully staffed then you’ll get pay the actual amount they’re supposed to pay you. You won’t really be getting any money unless you have 2+ donors and they must stay as donors for more than 45 days or else you won’t get your money. Overall you learn everything by watching your co workers on the field. They barely teach you anything and you MUST memorized your scripted pitch like a robot or else. In conclusion, don’t even bother with this job, they’re basically scamming you. The charity/donations goes to many good costs but the way this company represents those charities and donations with their rules and work ethic is really bad and nothing but unprofessionalism. Don’t waste your time. 

Making the decision to come to Up Fundraising was the greatest decision that I have ever made. It's not often that you find a company that values your experience and success and embraces change. Since joining Up Fundraising, C-Level Management has given me their full trust to do what I have already done; build a large, highly successful face-to-face fundraising program that delivers quality results. All of my ideas, thus far, have been met with nothing but excitement and encouragement. If you are looking for a career working to change the world by raising money for some of the greatest nonprofit organizations in the United States, you will not find a better employer than Up Fundraising. Up Fundraising values its employees, their experience and results. 

Let me start by saying that what they do is something I really want to do, I believe in many of the causes that they help fund raise.  My only week working there goes like this, first day we did training, talk a little bit about what they do and how they do it and the training was pretty decent.  However, in order to stay, you have to reach a certain amount of donations within a certain amount of days no matter what.  If you don't meet those goals, then they will terminate your employment no matter what.  I managed to secure some but not enough to stay and they just callously kick me out.  I can understand removing someone if they don't reach any donations at all but they could have given a second chance to those who were struggling for whatever reason or asked to see them before deciding to terminate employment.  This is a high risk job so unless you have some kind of back up, I can't recommend working here.

I've had plenty of jobs in my life, but this is by far my favorite of them all! From day one when I started as entry level Street Fundraiser I had Team Leaders investing in me and teaching me the skills necessary to succeed. My Team Leader saw potential in me that I didnt even see! Now I am one of the best fundraisers in our office and now I am a Site Rep (Supervisor) and still there is room for growth and opportunity. If I'm working at a coffee shop, at the end of the day my boss is not going to say, "Good job bud, you made 193 lattes today!" But when I sign up 4 monthly supporters here I go to sleep knowing I helped 16 children in the world get Education! I see myself working for UpFundraising for the rest of my life! I highly recommend this job to anyone that wants to make a difference in others lives!

If you are looking for a job that you can show up, do your job, and go home... this is not it. 

There is a team culture to join and performance standards to meet, which causes all the staff to be growing and improving every week, day, and hour. There is definitely a stress to this type of job where your performance standards need to be met, however there are few jobs in this world that you get to make a manageable impact on the world around you, while working next to some of the most passionate & fun people in the city. 

I started here at an entry level and have worked over the past few years to be a part of that impact and and successfully also make a career out of helping people. 

While there are better days than others, over all this is the best job I have every had, working with the best co workers I have ever had.

Depending on the city you are in, the market for finding new monthly donors can be quite brutal, especially if a fundraising team has been there a while and continually revisits burnt out sites. If you don't get donors, you will lose the job very fast, so you have to keep on your toes. The stress of getting essential numbers can often be overwhelming. Turnover is very high, though those who stay are usually pretty cool people. They will mess with your hours on a whim to help improve an office's overall numbers while not taking into consideration that fewer hours means fewer opportunities to find donors.

They won’t pay you what you deserve despite how hard you work. Most of your pay is commission based and you must fight tooth and nail to get your bonus. Management isn’t supportive, the two men that run the office are disorganized and one of them is a predator. They need to completely change the structure of how the office is run. Also, who knows how much of the donations actually go to the charities we work for...So, it’s not worth it. Look for something else before you get stuck in their chaotic world

I felt tired and my coworker(on site rep) took my donor. They don’t communicate everything you need to get in the orientation but not only that add new rules while on the street. I learned a lot but also being anxious because you never know when you’re gonna lose your job. We were stuck out in the rain all day once and no one got a donor and I had an hour train ride back and was soaking wet. That sets me up for disaster at every level. 

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