Charity Leaders Should Pay Close Attention to Obama's Pay Guidelines

While it’s important to pay attention to compensation policies and practices, it is also vital for charity leaders not to overreact. Government-enforced compensation restrictions for the nonprofit world are not inevitable.

But it is up to nonprofit groups themselves to set their compensation so fairly and publicy that policy makers will not be tempted to consider limiting them. It is not just to avoid new regulation that boards must act, but to maintain the trust of of the American public.