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

The Conference Doctor

As The Conference Doctor and dressed in my doctor's garb, I provide attendees at nonprofit conferences with confidential, one-on-one counseling to address their management, fundraising and career concerns and questions. This is a new and different offering for conference attendees, and an attractive alternative to large-group plenaries and workshops. And the Doctor's garb adds a little much-needed color and humor to nonprofit conferences (I swear, when some people first see me in my white coat and stethoscope, they look like they think I may be crazy or something. I really don't mind, particularly if it makes them feel a little better about their own mental health!).

Over the past thirteen years, I have been The Conference Doctor at more than 50 nonprofit conferences in 14 states.

Charge: $600/day plus travel-related expenses.

Find out more about The Conference Doctor.

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

Joined by longtime colleague Rita Haronian, we are available to produce nonprofit organization wage and benefit surveys for communities across the country. We are drawing on our 28 years of experience in producing such surveys, starting in 1978 with The Management Center's first Northern California survey. Our first 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. Our second survey for this community was published in 2004 and included 181 participating organizations. our third survey will be published in 2007.

FAIRPAY is a service of Bob Orser and Rita Haronian, in partnership with the Center for Nonprofit Management, for the production of salary and benefits surveys in the nonprofit sector. With over fifty years of combined experience in conducting nonprofit salary and benefits surveys, we use our own software application, along with a specially formatted questionnaire, to produce nonprofit organization salary 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.

The Doctor On Call

You can now take the Nonprofit Doctor home with you. By telephone, email, fax and even in person, I am available to help you with:

• internal management and personnel issues
• problems with individual employees or Board Members
• restructuring and reorganizing your agency
• ways to do your job more effectively
• wild and creative new ideas and directions
• new ways to raise money from new sources
• how to get the creative juices flowing in your organization
• feedback on your new ideas from someone "who is not from here"
• your brilliant career and where it is or is not
• are you truly in the right career and/or working at the right agency?
• could/should you think of doing something else?
• how to balance your professional and private life, maintain personal job satisfaction and avoid burnout.

Charge: $75/hour