August 10, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Nonprofiteer pokes some holes in an article by Alternet, a left-leaning online magazine, about the challenges charities face as baby-boom generation leaders retire.
While the article makes some good points, “it still seems to accept the basic falsehood with which boards have fought staff pay raises for years: that the choice is between depriving clients so staff members can drive Mercedes and compensating workers so badly that people with law degrees qualify for the earned income tax credit,” writes the blogger, Kelly Kleiman, a nonprofit consultant in Chicago.
“But if all else fails — if the nonprofit labor market is (gasp!) imperfect and continues to pay scarce employees as if there were a glut of them — then don’t be surprised if organizers from the SEIU or the Teamsters show up in charity offices, talking union,” she writes.
Read The Chronicle‘s article about the lack of new leadership in the nonprofit world.
What do you think? Can nonprofit groups provide better compensation without hurting their charitable efforts?
