[Foundation-l] Future Board election procedures and guidelines

Thu Jul 19 06:22:44 UTC 2007

Hoi,
You can choose not to pay for the work done in the role of board member, you
can pay for the work done as personnel.

Where you state that it is a given that you cannot pay a board member, you
forget that it is typically a matter of how the by laws are phrased. It is
very often a matter of custom not of law. Also when you consider the big
salaries paid to directors of not for profits, the argument that these
organisations are largely there to pay these salaries have some merit.

Thanks,
     GerardM

On 7/19/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/19/07, Alison Wheeler <wikimedia at alisonwheeler.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, July 18, 2007 15:52, GerardM wrote:
> > > It is not even true that a board member could not be paid a
> > > salary because otherwise the legal entity is an for profit
> organisation.
> >
> > OK, I might have slightly muddied the two points there in the way I
> worded
> > my point, but to clarify: in the UK (and, no doubt, some other
> > jurisdictions) it is not permissible to pay the board member of a
> > non-profit / charitable organisation for their being a board member,
> > whereas with a 'for profit' organisation this would be normal.
>
> That's correct, you can't pay a board member for being a board member,
> since (in just about every case) the board are the non-profit
> corporation equivalent of shareholders in a for-profit corporation.
> Employees can get paid in any type of corporation.
>
> --
> Stephen Bain
> stephen.bain at gmail.com
>
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