Goodwill's Corporate Takeover, May Be Model for Other Charities

[Rose Siding]

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Until recently, many nonprofit organizations might have steered away from a corporate executive such as Meloy, content to get their business-world advice from volunteer boards of directors salted heavily with business types.

But with government funding declining, the number of corporate executives moving to nonprofit groups is expected to swell as nonprofit boards look to corporate methods to increase revenue. The organizations need to replace a retiring generation of baby boomer nonprofit leaders, as well.
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More than half of the group's employees -- about 380 people -- are disadvantaged, such as former welfare recipients and former substance abusers, or are mentally or physically disabled. The organization has 13 contracts to clean and landscape federal government sites, which require that 75 percent of workers on the job be disabled or disadvantaged.
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But as a nonprofit employee, her annual Goodwill salary of $215,00 is "a lot" lower than her pay at Clear Channel. And getting down and dirty doesn't mean rock-and-roll anymore. Meloy and her management team recently joined Goodwill workers in scrubbing down the Armed Forces Retirement Home in the District after a worker shortage.
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A Goodwill regular, Priestley said she likes the renovated layout.
"I saw a lady dusting the shelves," she said. "That's unheard of."

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