After serving in the nonprofit management trenches for 25 years as the founder and Executive Director of The Support Center (now CompassPoint Nonprofit Services) and The Management Center, both in San Francisco, in 1994 I became The Nonprofit Doctor. Wearing a white coat and with a stethoscope hanging from my neck, I continue my illustrious and somewhat zany career of devising new, daring and always effective ways to help nonprofit organizations--and the people who staff and lead them—manage better.

Here are three ways that you and your organization can get a house call from the Doctor and a cure for what ails you:

FAIRPAY regional nonprofit organization compensation and benefits surveys are the best surveys of their kind in the country.

Fairpay is owned and operated by Bob Orser and Rita Haronian, capitalizing on their combined 50 years of experience in producing salary and benefits surveys with accurate and detailed data, beginning with The Management Center's northern California survey, first produced in 1978.  We can now work with local sponsoring organizations to produce a survey for your local community.

Surveys completed to date include:

Southwest Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh area)
Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management, Robert Morris University   
2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010

Delaware Valley (Philadelphia area)
Nonprofit Center at La Salle University
2005

Central Florida (Orlando area)
Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Center at Rollins College
2007, 2009, 2011

Massachusetts and adjoining areas (compensation only)   
Third Sector New England
2010

In our Fairpay surveys, we use our own software application, along with a specially formatted questionnaire, to produce nonprofit organization compensation and benefits surveys with accurate and detailed data. We can now work with local host or partner organizations to produce a survey for your local community.

It’s 2012!  Time to purchase “Fair Pay for Northern California Nonprofits: the 2012 Compensation and Benefits Survey” – the best survey of its kind in the country!

402 agencies, reporting on over 21,000 jobs, participated in the 2012 survey, making it the second largest  in the survey’s 34-year history.

For more information about the survey, also check out our Fair Pay - Northern California page.

We can now produce regional nonprofit compensation and benefits surveys and inhouse surveys for organizations outside of northern California.

In 2010 we produced a member survey for VisionServe Alliance, a St. Louis-based national association of organizations that provide a diversity of services to people who are blind or severely visually impaired.

For more information about this new service, see our In-House Surveys page.