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		<title>EEOC Looks at Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social media such as Facebook open up many new opportunities for hiring; many companies are reportedly finding that the best recruitment tool is having existing employees tap into their on-line networks.  But easily-available information about job candidates may tell prospective employers too much, exposing them to claims of violations of laws on such matters as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lawrenceassociates.com/blog/2010/02/18/eeoc-looks-at-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Public University Presidents&#8217; Compensation Reported</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chronicle of Higher Education reports a marked decline in the growth of salaries for the heads of public colleges and universities.  The article is here.
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		<link>http://www.lawrenceassociates.com/blog/2010/02/03/public-university-presidents-compensation-reported/</link>
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		<title>Public Reaction to Nonprofit Salaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, at the Harvard Business Review, Dan Pallotta observes that adverse public reaction to compensation perceived as high may be tied to the nature of the nonprofit, and that executives for nonprofits perceived as doing charitable work may be more vulnerable to criticisim than more highly-paid executives in the arts or high-end college sports coaching.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lawrenceassociates.com/blog/2010/02/03/public-reaction-to-nonprofit-salaries/</link>
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		<title>IRS Announces Program for Correction of 409A Document Errors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although the deadline for complying with Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code was December 31, 2008, the IRS has provided some avenues for correcting errors in deferred compensation plan documentation.  The most recent is IRS Notice 2010-6, found at www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-10-06.pdf.
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		<link>http://www.lawrenceassociates.com/blog/2010/02/03/irs-announces-program-for-correction-of-409a-document-errors/</link>
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		<title>IRS to Audit Executive Compensation at 40 Colleges and Universities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following up on the 400 questionnaires sent out to colleges and universities under its College and Universities Compliance Project, the IRS has announced that it will conduct audits of 40 of those schools, with a particular emphasis on executive compensation.  As noted in our earlier posts on this subject, this activity by the IRS follows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lawrenceassociates.com/blog/2010/01/14/irs-to-audit-executive-compensation-at-40-colleges-and-universities/</link>
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		<title>Lawrence Associates Provides Complementary Webinar on Nonprofit Executive Compensation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Associates will present a two-part program &#8220;Will Your Nonprofit’s Executive Compensation Withstand Scrutiny by the IRS, Public and Media?&#8221; including an overview, strategies and responses.  We will be joined by Richard Lucash of the law firm McCarter &#38; English.  The webinars will be run on January 27 and February 24, 2010 at 1pm EST.  Registration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lawrenceassociates.com/blog/2010/01/08/wednesday-webinar-series-for-nonprofits-announced/</link>
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		<title>Kettering Pay Frozen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The blog FierceHealthcare (www.fiercehealthcare.com) reports that &#8220;More than 100 executives at Kettering Health Network, named by Thomson Reuters as one of the top 10 U.S. health systems, had their pay frozen.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.lawrenceassociates.com/blog/2010/01/06/kettering-pay-frozen/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Bad Actors&#8221; Article Spreads Virally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in the Charlotte Observer has been spreading virally across websites and blogs since it was posted on December 20.  While it repeats the mistake of articles from other sources by noting the Charity Navigator survey that reported an overall increase in nonprofit CEO salaries, while neglecting the fact that the survey covered 990&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lawrenceassociates.com/blog/2009/12/24/bad-actors-article-spreads-virally/</link>
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		<title>Forbes Magazine on Nonprofit CEO Salaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forbes Magazine &#8211; usually, in our estimation, a pretty good business journal &#8211; recently published an article that&#8217;s one of the more extreme examples of the mindset that &#8220;people who work for nonprofits should be paid less that those who work for for-profits&#8221; or perhaps &#8220;it&#8217;s inherently wrong for a nonprofit CEO to make a significant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lawrenceassociates.com/blog/2009/12/21/not-even-wrong-forbes-magazine-on-nonprofit-ceo-salaries/</link>
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		<title>IRS Issues Governance Check Sheet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised by the IRS&#8217; Sarah Hall Ingram, Commissioner, Tax Exempt and Governance Agencies, at her talk at Georgetown University this summer, the IRS has issued a Governance Check Sheet for nonprofit organizations for use by its agents.  The check sheet essentially runs through the issues of nonprofit organization governance covered by the new IRS Form [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lawrenceassociates.com/blog/2009/12/10/irs-issues-governance-check-sheet/</link>
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