THE DOCTOR IS IN

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

Fairpay: A New Way to Produce a Nonprofit
Compensation and Benefits Survey for Your Community

Longtime colleague Rita Haronian and I are available to produce Fairpay nonprofit organization compensation and benefits surveys for communities across the country. We are drawing on our combined 50+ years' of experience in producing such surveys, starting in 1978 with The Management Center's first Northern California survey.

Our first non-California survey in 2002 was of 193 agencies in southwestern Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh area), sponsored by the Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management with major funding from the United Way of Allegheny County. We have since then produced three additional surveys for them -- in 2004 (181 participants), 2006 (200 participants) and 2008 (194 participants).

We have also produced two Central Florida surveys for the Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership Center at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. We completed our first survey for them in 2007 (153 participants) and the second in 2009 (145 participants).

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 sponsoring organizations to produce a survey for your local community or constituency.

Fairpay - Northern California

For the first time, Rita and I are co-producers of "Fair Pay for Northern California Nonprofits: The 2010 Compensation and Benefits Survey", the region's 32nd annual survey, to be published in late April.

For more information about the survey, check out our Fair Pay - Northern California page and for information on how to purchase the survey, go to www.nonprofitcomp.com.

A new service from Fairpay: Customized In-house Compensation and Benefits Surveys for Multi-Office National or Regional Nonprofits

We can now produce an in-house mini-Fairpay compensation and benefits survey for national and regional nonprofits based on data submitted by your geographically dispersed offices or affiliates.

We are currently hard at work on our first national in-house survey for the St. Louis-based VisionServe Alliance whose organizational members provide services to people with vision loss across the country.

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

Crazy Ideas!

I've always thought of myself as a "crazy idea" thinker. To read about some of my crazy ideas, often conceived in collaboration with others, go to my Crazy Ideas! page. I'd love to know what you think about them.