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Living Beyond Breast Cancer
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Posted by RebeccaM | April 16, 2009 6:05:51 AM
I think their cause sounds great and I'm sure they've helped a lot of people, but I guess I am just too conservative to donate to a charity where nearly 5% goes to the CEO's salary. I know that relative to other breast cancer charities, a salary of just barely over $100,000 is not that much, but 5% means that for every $100 I'd donate, $5 would go to the president's salary alone. That's just too high for me in this case. I can understand that running a company is a lot of work, but it is a lower-revenue charity, and people could really benefit from the extra 30 or 40 thousand in salary that could be given up.
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re:salary
Posted by DonM | November 16, 2009 6:26:11 AM
While the salary might seem to be a bit high, it's important to recognize that high salaries aren't necessarily a bad thing. It costs money to get/keep good people, and to assume that not-for-profit organizations can (or should) expect to pay less for high-quality leadership simply isn't realistic. I don't think anybody would flinch at this salary in a for-profit organization. If, a few years from now, the revenues and/or programming haven't grown, then I'd say the CEO hasn't earned that salary and should be replaced.