[Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

[Dan Rosenthal]

On Nov 19, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Risker wrote:

> On 19 November 2010 18:39, Noein <pronoein at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> <Several posts about disclosure of salaries and other personal information
>> of employees past and present of the WMF>
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> Noein, I believe you will find the answers you seek in the latest 503(c)
> filing that the WMF has published.  The WMF met the legislated requirements
> for reporting of salaries of certain individuals as well as the overall
> payroll. I'm not personally going to go looking for that document, but it's
> on the WMF website and I'm pretty sure someone reading this can provide you
> with a direct link. I don't recall who was on that list, other than Sue
> Gardner.
> 
> I'm also not going to guess what the reporting requirements are for the US
> government without the documents in front of me, but I'll note that other
> jurisdictions require either disclosure of the individual salaries of X
> number of the highest paid employees or, in some cases, of each employee
> earning over Y amount. I've seen a fair number of these sorts of fiduciary
> declarations made under various local laws for non-profits and charities,
> and none of them require the public disclosure of each individual employee's
> salary.
> 
> I hope you will agree that the reporting made under the applicable
> government legislation and regulation should probably be the place where the
> personal privacy/public information line should be drawn, because it is
> consistent across the entire non-profit sector.
> 
> So...could someone please add a link to the latest filing? Thanks.
> 
> Risker/Anne
> 

They should be on http://www.wikimediafoundation.org, in the sidebar in the "Corporate" collapsible box. 

-Dan