Paid staff lets volunteer managers ethically run amuck. Is this common?
I was doing the mandatory ethical training for this org and the irony is too much so I came here to vent.
I am a volunteer for an old school non-profit. The work we do is the non-profit's product. There is no paid volunteer coordinator. The employees have a volunteer management team that does it, usually full time. For free.
I love the actual work but those volunteer managers are another story. Financial malfeasance, misrepresentation, breaking privacy, smearing reputations with made up stories. A volunteer who is an HR manager went to talk with the staff with backup and was chewed out for bothering them. She was so disgusted she quit.
It's so 'ick' I won't put the org's name on my LinkedIn. And I avoid any contact with the volunteer management.
Is this common in larger non-profits?