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How Much to Pay the Executive Director?
Nonprofit board members are often puzzled when it comes to setting the salary of the executive director. On one hand, we want to keep our talented staff; on the other hand, we know the budget is tight. Some legal and practical guidelines: It’s m …
Can Employees Smoke Medical Marijuana at Work?
Dear Rita: We recently offered a management job to a terrific candidate, with the condition that he pass both a background check and a drug test. When he tested positive for marijuana, he told us not to worry and produced a doctor’s prescrip …
Is being a surrogate mother a profession?
Dear Rita: Over a year ago one of our employees at our preschool program became a surrogate mother. She was paid to cover her expenses for carrying the baby, and she had a beautiful baby boy who is now at his new home. Now, only eight months later, she …
Telecommuting and Flexible Work Arrangements: Do Them Right
Flexible hours and working from home are benefits that many nonprofits want to implement, but are not sure how to do it fairly and in a way that acknowledges the value of having people in the office together. Robin Erickson, Director of Finance a …
Facebook + Employees = Yikes!
Dear Rita in HR: I’m hearing horror stories from other executive directors about employees posting confidential information at Facebook, for instance, and lawsuits against nonprofits that looked at these sites as part of reference checks. I …
Terminate Employee After One Year of Sick Leave?
Dear Ask Rita: Our agency limits the maximum time an employee can be out on a medical leave of absence to one year. One employee who has been out with a medical condition is now approaching the one-year mark, but she hasn’t been in contact with u …
Five Internal Controls for the Very Small Nonprofit
Segregation of duties, checks & balances . . . difficult to implement in the organization that has perhaps three or fewer staff, or only a few active board members in an all-volunteer organization. We asked CPA Carl Ho, who works with dozens …
Our Executive Director is Embezzling
It’s the phone call no board member wants or ever expects to get: word that the organization’s executive director is being investigated by the police for embezzlement. In this First Person Nonprofit article, Vernon Waldren, board member of the No …
Nonprofit Job Sites Directory
READERS: Please note that a new version of this Directory has been published in April 2011. Find it here. December is famously a bad month in which to look for a job, and a bad month in which to bring on someone new. Get a leg up o …
Recruiting for Board Diversity: Part 3 in Diversity Series
In Part 1 of this series on diversity, we discussed mission reasons, business reasons and other ways to think about diversity on nonprofit boards. In Part 2 we looked at diversity at the nonprofit sector level and the importance of organizations of col …
