Working at Long Island Cares

some staff members are really nice people

Absolutely disgraceful doesn’t even begin to cover how this organization treats its employees. I worked at LIC from 2023 until a couple of weeks ago, and the downfall was immediate the moment Katherine Fritz took over. Real Outreach work? Thrown straight in the trash. They pushed out the incredible Dr. Rosati, and with her went the entire backbone of the Outreach department. What’s left is chaos. This so-called “food bank” has morphed into a corporate machine that couldn’t care less about fighting food insecurity. They hand executive-level power to people who don’t know a single thing about the programs, the policies, or even basic job responsibilities — yet these same people get to make decisions about funding, operations, and even staff wages. They dump all the real work on everyone else, then parade around soaking up praise from the board like they earned it. Warehouse and Outreach staff are treated like actual slaves. If you’re not visibly breaking your back every second of the day, you’re labeled lazy — all for barely twenty bucks an hour. Some guys are loading multiple trucks alone, every single day, destroying their bodies while the higher-ups sit comfortably behind desks pretending they know what “hard work” is. Outreach staff face the Long Island public — feeding families in every weather condition, dealing with unstable situations, constantly de-escalating crises — and LIC gives zero support, resources, or protection. They even send 19-year-old women into the woods alone to feed the homeless. It’s reckless. It’s dangerous. And they do it without blinking. They are severely understaffed, burned out, and losing people faster than they can hire. The turnover rate is a walking red flag. If you’re not sitting safely in the main building at a desk, you’re treated as disposable and paid like it. This “nonprofit” has become a corporate joke — obsessed with marketing, money, and image while abandoning its mission entirely. I would not recommend anyone work there, and I certainly wouldn’t recommend donating so much as a can of soup. There are far better organizations on Long Island that actually deserve your time, money, and trust.

wasn't any

honestly, the CEO Katherine Fritz and her new leadership team are the downfall of this organization

By treating employees like actual human beings. Providing proper work attire, improving working conditions, livable wages, and making staff members feel valued.

do not interview here

extremely low. low wages are not compensated with any sort of flexibility

nothing anymore

Pretty flexible work life balance. Everyone there is extremely nice, friendly, and cares about feeding the hungry.

Workload is not spread evenly amongst employees of the same titles/positions. People get treated differently. Unorganized and lack of training for new hires. Work lots of overtime but can't get overtime, only flex hours. Hard to really get that time back.