Hoi, An organisation is a legal entity, its books show a profit or not. When someone is making paid for doing a job, it does not equate that a profit is being made. 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..
The argument does not make sense.
Thanks, GerardM
On 7/18/07, Alison Wheeler wikimedia@alisonwheeler.com wrote:
On Tue, July 17, 2007 06:26, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
As an afterthought; rather than allow simultaneus roles of employee and trustee, it would be far preferable to give the trustee an outright honorarium.
If a Board member was to receive an honorarium then it would be contrary to the law in many countries (eg. UK). The fact of being on the board of a non-profit is that latter bit - *non*-profit.
Alison
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