Executive Excess

It seems that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has painted a bulls-eye on his state’s nonprofits. He  recently announced the creation of a task force to audit nonprofits that receive state funds.  Not a bad idea in and of itself.  But these audits won’t be assessing the general financial health and well-being of the nonprofits; they won’t be looking for misappropriated tax dollars.

They will solely be about determining whether the salaries of the executive directors/CEOs is “appropriate.”  See, Cuomo thinks that heads of nonprofits are Read more