[Chapter-delegates] FINAL REMINDER: Call for Nominations, ISOC Board of Trustees

[Hank Nussbacher]

On 06/01/2022 10:37, Ted Hardie wrote:
>
> I'll point out that compensating board members has some pretty serious 
> side effects.  If the compensation is over $600, the board member must 
> be issued a 1099 and may have to deal with US taxes filings as a 
> result; for non-US persons, this is not a trivial undertaking.  
> Further, it may mean that they are not volunteers under the US federal 
> Volunteer Protection Act or its US state equivalents.  That changes 
> the liability rules for board members. so that they incur personal 
> liability at a lower bar.  That can be dealt with via insurance, but 
> it is not a simple calculus.  It also may create issues for those 
> whose employment has conflict of interest rules that vary by whether 
> or not the external activity is paid or unpaid work.
>
> The last stats I saw were a few years ago, but at the time fewer than 
> 15% of US nonprofits compensated their board chairs and even fewer 
> compensated other members.  In many cases the logic is simply that it 
> discourages donation, since donors may see it as a sign that their 
> money is going to the organization rather than the mission.
>
Note that ICANN, a similar worldwide organization does compensate its 
Directors:

https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2014-07-30-en#2.b


$45K/yr


Regards,

Hank Nussbacher

ISOC-IL