Development in Demand: Challenges Facing Fundraising Professionals and Employers

by: Joe Brown April 20, 2010

For the vast majority of the country’s more than 1.2 million registered 501(c)(3) organizations, the development function, and therefore development professionals, has always been of critical importance.

Salary Ranges, Part 2: Anatomy of a Range

by: Joe Brown April 8, 2010

In my previous post, I made a case for the use of salary ranges as the foundation of a formal compensation program for nonprofit organizations. Particularly for organizations experiencing or have experienced significant growth, the use of salary ranges can go a long way toward ensuring salaries are equitable and competitive while, at the same [...]

Salary Ranges, Part 1: Why Ranges?

by: Joe Brown April 6, 2010

In a recent post, compensation consultant Ann Bares questions whether salary ranges, long a staple of compensation programs among America’s companies and organizations, are still a useful tool given the relatively slow pace of salary annual growth during the past two decades. There is no question that administering salaries — and, in particular, differentiating rewards according [...]

Are Your Executive Compensation Bases Covered?

by: Joe Brown March 16, 2010

A recent survey found that 73% of nonprofit organizations have a formal policy to review executive compensation. As a human resources and management consultant to nonprofits, what I found striking about this statistic is that it means 27% of organizations do not have a formal policy.

Q & A: How do you ask for a raise?

by: Karen Alphonse March 11, 2010

Question: How do you ask for a raise? Answer: From what I am seeing and hearing, the practical answer is that you don’t.  Many employers are not even hiring on a full-time basis let alone giving raises.  Many have cut bonuses or have made them entirely discretionary.  If, despite the uncertain times and these hesitant [...]