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| Re: grantwriting and salary confidentiality
Posted by Julie Rodda  on 9/10/2008, 9:57 am, in reply to "grantwriting and salary confidentiality"
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Dear Molly:
Since your nonprofit is a public tax-exempt corporation, it's information is open to public scrutiny. You are correct in noting that certain aspects of employee information are absolutely confidential, but salaries and wages are not. This is the reason that you can read about how much the director of various charities make by reading a newspaper article dealing with nonprofit salary ranges.
As Director of Development with responsibility for grant procurement, you would be placed in an impossible position to not be able to justify budgetary expenditures, including positional salaries, especially when writing grants which include direct costs.
Several nonprofit clients I have worked with have a salary tier system, and people working there are well aware of what each tier pays within a range of earning power. It is healthy for employees to understand where their earning power might top-out...Keeping people in the dark about what upper tier management might be making is not the best practice for transparency for anyone concerned, be it a potential donor or an employee.
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Julie Rodda
http://www.roddaconsulting.com/
Funding Consulting, Grant Research
& Proposal Writing Services
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