Employees Who Earned More Than Their Organization’s Chief Executive
Related materials: Special report on nonprofit executive pay Employee 2008 compensation University of Southern California (Los Angeles) Peter Carroll, Head Coach, Football $4,286,050 1 Columbia University (New York) David N. Silvers, Clinical Professor of Dermatology $3,705,968 Duke University…
Accion International (Boston): Appointed Michael Schlein, president of international franchise management at Citigroup (New York), to be president and chief executive officer. Mr. Schlein succeeds Maria Otero, who is now the U.S. under secretary of state for democracy and global affairs. Accion…
Staff and Budget Cuts at Nonprofit Organizations: a Sampling
Amnesty International USA (Washington) The human-rights organization has laid off approximately 45 people in its Washington office. Birthright Israel NEXT (New York) The organization, a branch of Taglit-Birthright Israel, has laid off six employees. Calvary Street Ministry (Memphis) The group,…
How The Chronicle Compiled Its Survey of Nonprofit Executive Compensation
The Chronicle‘s 17th annual salary survey provides compensation information for top officials at 325 charities and foundations in the United States. Many organizations included in the report were among the charities on last year’s Philanthropy 400, The Chronicle‘s annual list of charities that…
By Noelle Barton
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New on the Job: Karen Mathis, Chief Executive, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Background: Ms. Mathis was previously executive director of the Central European and Eurasian Institute, a nonprofit group that provides postgraduate legal education. She is also a past president of the American Bar Association. Education: Earned a bachelor’s degree in history, political science,…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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Memories of Grander Times Motivate a Charity’s Efforts to Reclaim Buffalo’s Central Terminal
The New York Central Railroad was on a roll back in 1929, when it completed its Buffalo Central Terminal, filling the massive Art Deco station with marble walls, terrazzo floors, and stylish bronze fixtures and topping it all off with a 15-story office tower. The price tag: $14-million. Sixty-eight…
By BRENNEN JENSEN
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New ‘Compact’ Asks Groups to Pledge Inclusive Practices
An umbrella group that includes some of America’s biggest nonprofit organizations has created a set of standards by which charities and foundations can measure their progress in making themselves more diverse and inclusive. The Nonprofit Workforce Coalition — which includes more than 70 charities,…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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What to Do When Best-Laid Plans for Inclusion Go Awry
What happened: Soon after Nancy Splain was hired three years ago as an outreach coordinator for a religious-oriented charity in Phoenix that promotes the well being of older adults, she set out to look for volunteers beyond the organization’s usual sources of local synagogues and churches. A former…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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Program Trains Minorities in Social Entrepreneurship
Harvard, Kellogg, and Wharton business schools have this in common when they vet applicants for much-coveted spots in their classes: They look favorably on graduates of programs run by the charity Management Leadership for Tomorrow. Nearly 40 percent of the minority students at those top three…
By Caroline Preston
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A Tough Talk Leads to Falling Barriers
What happened: Alvin C. Hill, Jr, , who runs diversity efforts at the Milwaukee Center for Independence, a social-services charity, chose race as a topic last year for the charity’s annual mandatory diversity training session for employees. He felt a sense of necessity, he says, because the…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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Removing Obstacles That Keep Young People of Modest Means From Join Charities
Some charity experts warn that nonprofit jobs, especially for entry-level workers, are increasingly limited to people who already have money — and the social connections and ease that accompany it. That’s a potentially ominous development, says Cynthia Gibson, a former program officer at the…
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
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Workers of Modest Means Face Tests in Charity World
Brian Gallagher knows a thing or two about being poor — he grew up facing many of the same economic struggles as the individuals his charity seeks to help. “We were a product of human services and public support,” recalls Mr. Gallagher, one of six children and the first in his family to attend…
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
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Doing More With Less: Recruiting In Lean Times
Although some large nonprofit organizations have created jobs in recent years to oversee their efforts to make themselves more inclusive, one of America’s largest nonprofit groups is tinkering with that approach during the recession. After creating a chief diversity officer position in 2006 and…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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Belts Tightened by Recession, Diversity Officers Stretch Resources
Hoping to build on its momentum after publishing a well-received report last year on race and poverty, Catholic Charities, in Alexandria, Va., set about reviving long-dormant “diversity councils” at its 174 member organizations. The employee councils would focus on ways to spread an emphasis on…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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The Web Gives New Supporters a Voice
What happened: This year, the National Trust for Historic Preservation sought to highlight the conservation of historic sites that hold particular significance for minorities by creating special Web pages, each showing buildings connected to a specific culture: African American, Hispanic, and so…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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America’s biggest charities are much more likely than its biggest businesses to be led by a woman — but only slightly more likely to be led by an African-American, according to a new survey by The Chronicle of nonprofit leadership. And the leadership at neither the top charities nor businesses is…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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