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"Nonprofit chief executive compensation is being scrutinized by the IRS, state regulators, the media, legislators, and potential funders. Does your board have a process that allows you to offer a salary that will attract and keep top talent without compromising your organization's mission or the pub... Full description
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Understanding the board's role in setting chief executive compensation
- Aligning compensation with organizational mission, goals, and culture
- Establishing the title, job description, and profile
- Developing a compensation philosophy
- Understanding the marketplace
- Meeting the legal standards
- Passing the test of public and stakeholder scrutiny
- Understanding the elements of compensation
- Term negotiations and the final contract
- Appendix I The IRS Form 990
- Appendix II FAQS
- General topics
- Board responsibility
- Legal issues
- Overall compensation
- Performance evaluation and incentive based compensation
- Benefits
- Contracting
- Appendix III Sample compensation committee charter
- Appendix IV Sample chief executive job description
- Appendix V Sample chief executive contract
- Appendix VI Sample leadership assessment
- Glossary.