A special message to the CEO’s of larger Northern California nonprofit organizations from Gary Templin, 2010 Survey Task Force member and retired Executive Director, East Bay SPCA, Oakland, CA.

Your organization’s participation in the 2010 compensation and benefits survey will benefit your organization in particular.

Since 2001 the IRS has encouraged charities to go through a set of steps to ensure that executive compensation is set appropriately.  On the new form 990, the IRS has standardized reporting to make comparing salaries easier and is requiring charities to provide information about the process they use to set the salaries of employees who receive $150,000 or more in total compensation.

Your agency’s participation in this survey will help you navigate through this new process and will be a primary tool to help your board of directors document the rationale they use to set the salaries they pay their executives.

Conducting your agency’s own compensation and benefits survey to satisfy IRS requirements would cost you a small fortune.  A much better alternative would be for all of you larger nonprofits to all agree to participate in the 2010 compensation and benefits survey.

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Every time I hear mention of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror film, “Psycho”, I think of Barbara Schilling, who passed away in 1992.  Not because she was scary:  she was a sweetheart, a trusted colleague and friend and a remarkably gifted nonprofit consultant.

Barbara conceptualized the Annual Wage and Benefit Survey of Northern California Nonprofit Organizations, The Guide to California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law, Opportunity NOCs (nonprofit organizations classifieds), The Glossary of Tools and Concepts for Nonprofit Managers and countless other useful innovations for Bay Area nonprofits during her morning shower at her home in Atherton.

Yes, that's where she thought up all these wonderful innovations.

In her early career, Barbara worked for the Polaroid Corporation in the area of human resources.  Got married, gave up her career and raised her family.  On the side she joined the Junior League and numerous nonprofit boards, learning how it’s done and how it could be done better.  Barbara became an expert on nonprofit boards and human resources because she’d done it.  When her two sons grew up, she began her own personal business called "Ask Barbara."  She joined the staff of the Support Center in San Francisco and she and I co-founded The Management Center in 1977.

We hope the 2010 Compensation and Benefits Survey will help you and your organization.  If it does, think of Barbara Schilling who dreamed it up 32 years ago.

Better still, grab a new bar of soap, get the hot water running and step into the shower!

Bob Orser
The Nonprofit Doctor