Fundraising Guidance for Registered Charities

While telemarketing is allowed by Canadian charities they must be very careful in its use.

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There has been some public concern expressed about executive compensation at charities.  It is important that charities have appropriate mechanisms to ensure that the charity is neither paying executives too little or too much for the services provided.  If you pay too little you might find out too late that the executive is moving on - the cost to a charity of such change at the top can in some cases be substantial.  As well, paying too little has a cascading effect on all salaries in the organization and the charity may have trouble keeping people at different levels.  If you pay too much you are not effectively using the assets of a charity, you will have others in your organization feeling that they are not sufficiently compensated and you will quite legitimately upset various stakeholders such as the public, media and CRA.

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