For nonprofits to pay CEO's and Directors this kind of money is obscene. Take a look at what Sharon Harmon gets as director of Oregon Humane, too. I don't know what our local animal nonprofit director's get, like SafeHaven and Heartland, but I would imagine it's a significant part of where donations end up--in the directors pocket. Some of these folks on the list below are cashing in big time on the suffering of animals and people.
As a person who once worked at the Corvallis Goodwill and thought it was a sweatshop, I take issue with the Goodwill salaries especially. How dare they?
Goodwill of the Columbia-Willamette:
Michael Miller, President: $644,587
Richard Knox, Finance: $204,710
Mercy Corps:
Neal Keny-Guyer, CEO & Director: $221,178
Daniel O'Neill, Co-Founder & Director: $186,940
Nancy Lindborg, President: $185,325
Steve Mitchell, Treasurer & CFO: $157,666
United Way of the Columbia-Willamette:
Brent Stewart, President/CEO: $172,500
Carol Frye, COO: $120,750
Medical Teams International:
Bas Vanderzalm President: $162,848
William Essig, VP, International Programs: $129,771
Soozi Redkey, VP,Resource Dev.: $124,436
Pamela Blikstad, VP, Finance: $106,073
Providence Health System:
Russ Danielson, CEO: $579,939 (2005 figures)
Legacy Health System:
Pamela Vukovich, Interim CEO: $550,000
Red Cross, Oregon Trail Chapter:
Thomas Bruner, CEO - $145,000
Oregon Food Bank:
Rachel Bristol, Exec. Director: $133,112
Janeen Wadsworth, COO: $79,760;
Oregon Humane Society
Sharon Harmon, Exec. Director: $124,900
Susan Mentley, Operations Director: $87,547
St. Vincent de Paul of Portland:
Sharon Hills, Exec. Director: $60,000
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This is one of the things I hold against PETA. They get all these donations in and carry out terroist raids on various facility under the guise of investigations to get more funds out of people, but the money goes to fund the lifestyles of the BOD and not to help the animals.
ReplyDeleteI don't keep track of Peta. They don't care about feral cats at all. I once confronted the director by letter over this. She claims she wants feral cats killed because she had a bad experience in Eugene when caring for some ferals. One died, got stuck in a pipe or something. Get real, lady. Tame cats die in horrible fashion also, if allowed outside. Even if inside. Death happens. So this experience of hers long ago begat Peta's hatred of feral cats and my disgust with Peta.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, there are a lot of people who make money in this fashion. I call them the tele-evangelical line my pocketeers nonprofiteers. I just made that term up. I like it.
You know the type---like the television godsters stealing money from the poor and elderly in heartwrenching late night god pleas on TV for donations, many nonprofit directors and CEO's line their pockets by exploiting people, animals or people's good intent.
I heard an ethicist speak once. He talked about flashly Peta and how hypocritical they behave in regards to feral cats. He also said that those who help feral cats do so out of pure love and highest empathy, with no thought of personal glory or reward, because feral cats are so malaligned by humans and that the person helping feral cats doesn't even gain the reward of gratitude from the cat itself. In other words, it's easy to advocate for animals everybody loves, even for big cats and the likes of elephants and chimps. Especially if done in a hands off manner, like with protests. Protesting is the "out" of the do nothing crowd. It's far harder to delve in and create change with hard dirty emotionally challenging work. He said this in better words, but later on, when I thought about what he said, his words were a comfort to me.
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