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(Alliance E-News Service) — Alliance President and CEO Peter Goldberg is speaking out against a controversial new directive from the New Jersey Department of Human Services and Children and Families that caps how much of a state contract can be apportioned to CEO salaries and employee benefits.
This cost-cutting measure is being closely followed by nonprofits in other states, which worry that similar regulations could spread across the country, according to a July 8 article in The Nonprofit Times.
“This is, in the end, going to amount to a short-sighted and misguided effort to address some serious issues,” says Goldberg says in the article. “This action, limited as it is to the nonprofit social sector, will neither solve New Jersey's fiscal crisis, nor will it be in the best interest of its most vulnerable children and families.”
He adds, “Why single out social services for vulnerable kids and families, as if the services or recipients are second-class citizens? This isn’t about salaries; this is about kids and families.”
In a time when leadership recruitment and retention are critical issues for nonprofit human service organizations, Goldberg wants Alliance members to be assured he will continue to speak out against such regulations whenever given the chance.  |
