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:

Doing business as Nonprofit Compensation Associates (NCA), 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.

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

It's 2011 - Time to Purchase Fair Pay for Northern California Nonprofits: the 2011 Compensation and Benefits Survey, the best survey of its kind in the country!

431 agencies, reporting on over 23,000 jobs, participated in the 2011 survey, making it the largest and most robust report in the survey's 33-year history!

To find out how your agency can purchase the survey, click on www.nonprofitcomp.com, email Nonprofit Compensation Associates, the publishers of the survey, at survey@nonprofitcomp.com or call us at (510) 645-1005.

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.

We recently completed a member survey for VisionServe Alliance, a national association of organizations that provide a diversity of services to people who are blind or severely visually impaired, based in St. Louis.

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