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Salary Survey
Many of you have
asked us what salary ranges and benefits are being
offered for comparable positions within our member
network.
In order to help answer that
question, we sent out a short survey by email last
week. If you haven't already done so,
please take a few minutes to complete the
survey here by April 24th.
The results will
be compiled anonymously and reported back out to all
member organizations that complete the survey.
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Join
us on LinkedIn
SELP has created a LinkedIn
group to help make the networking and conversations
that occur at our annual conference continue year
round. Joining the SELP LinkedIn group will put
you in contact with your peers from around the country,
help you keep track of how folks are moving around the
environmental community and keep you linked in to what
others in the SELP network are doing. Visit LinkedIn
today to get started.
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This quarter has
been marked by a number of changes here at SELP.
If you recognize the new banner above, it means you've
already seen one change; our new website.
A related change is that we have several new
interns here in the SELP office. Among other
projects, Brian Collela designed and built our new
website. Marissa DeGroot has been working hard on
several membership support projects, and Andrew Kell has
volunteered his time for policy research.
Another
change is that this is the last newsletter I will be
sending out as SELP's Membership Services
Coordinator. It is with a mix of excitement and
sadness that I have accepted a position with another
organization. We're very pleased to welcome Emily
Miota on board to take over SELP's conference planning
and membership support duties. She began her
career as an organizer for the Wisconsin League of
Conservation Voters and has extensive experience
planning large scale events. After May 6th you can
reach Emily at emiota@selp.org. Welcome Emily!
It's been a genuine pleasure working with all of
you, and keep up the amazing work!
Best
Regards,
Michelle
Watkins
mwatkins@selp.org
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SELP.org
If you
haven't already checked out our new website, we invite
you on over to take a look.
Among the new
features designed to better promote our member groups,
we now have a section for recent member news articles, a
slideshow of our member logos, and a page for your job
opportunities.
Member News is
located on our homepage and features the latest updates
to your RSS feeds. If you would like us to add
your group's news to our homepage, make sure you have a
properly formatted RSS feed with a title incorporating
your group's name or initials, and time-stamps for each
item posted. For more information about RSS news
please see our RSS
instructional page.
Member
Logos will now display on the upper right
hand corner of our new homepage. Please take a moment to
check out how your logo appears. If you have a
more current logo, please send it to us so we can update
the display.
Job
Opportunities within the SELP network will
be showcased on our jobs
page. For this page to be most effective,
please alert us via e-mail to any hiring your group is
doing, and include any relevant information or
links. Please also let us know when your position
is filled so we can remove the job from our
site.
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PSD
Success
for the Dakota Resource Council
Our members at the Dakota Resource Council
(DRC) recently reported some unexpected good news on a
very important Clean Air Act issue that they first
brought to national attention in 2003. The proposed
Prevention of Significant Deterioration Class I
increment rule, which originated in North Dakota was
finally dropped by the Bush administration in
December.  The North Dakota Health
Department had found PSD violations in Theodore
Roosevelt National Park and other Class I airsheds back
in 1998. After EPA Region VIII started talking about a
possible State Implementation Plan revision, North
Dakota's Health Department cooked up (an open records
search revealed that it took them 14 tries) an
alternative to EPA guidance on PSD measurement in order
to make the violations go away. DRC sued
EPA twice to enforce the law against North Dakota, but
had both cases thrown out on procedural matters. Last
fall, the Bush EPA put North Dakota's "version 14" out
for public comment, and shortly afterward announced its
intention to issue it as a rule. National approval for
"version 14" would have threatened air quality in
wilderness areas, national parks and other protected
areas. The DRC gained some important
national partners in the fight, among them the National
Parks Conservation Association, Environmental Defense,
the Clean Air Trust and the Environmental Integrity
Project. Unfortunately, "version 14" is
still North Dakota operating policy. There are no
pertinent air quality permits pending in the state now,
but the DRC is looking for ways to make "version 14"
disappear completely from the face of the earth and see
instead the federal PSD program being used for its
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Increased
Scrutiny of Executive Pay by IRS
"If you're not looking, we're
looking," was the message Lois Lerner, director
of tax-exempt organizations for the IRS, gave this week
to a group of lawyers representing nonprofit
organizations. According to the Wall Street
Journal, her message focused on nonprofit executive
compensation and warned of the Internal Revenue
Service's increased scrutiny of the sector. She
emphasized the importance of practicing due diligence to
ensure that executive compensation is in line with that
of similar organizations and with that, the importance
of backing up compensation levels with appropriate data
on comparable practices from similar
organizations.
IRS scrutiny of
nonprofit practices is increasing in many realms,
culminating in the redesign of the 990 form. The
form requires nonprofits to make certain governance
policies public, in an effort to assure the American
public that organizations continue to deserve their tax
exempt status. Included in the changes to the
annual informational return are changes that will make
it easier for people to find information about executive
compensation and how those compensation rates are
established.
Participating in SELP's Salary
and Benefits survey is one way to decrease your
chances of IRS scrutiny. All organizations
participating in the survey will receive a free copy of
the report. It just might come in handy when your
organization is filling out part IV, question 15 on the
new 990
which asks about the process for determining
compensation for the organization's CEO, Executive
Director, or top management official and other key
employees of the
organization.
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