Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc

“Organization's process to review form 990 board members have received a copy of the draft 990 and authorized the finance committee to approve and file the form on behalf of the organization.”

“The board members on an annual basis, disclose any conflicting interests. The disclosures are tracked by the management.”

“The boston area rape crisis center is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that uses the internal revenue service's three-step safe-harbor procedure forestablishing a rebuttable presumption that our executives' compensation isreasonable. The boston area rape crisis center's governance committee ofthe board of directors is the body that reviews and approves compensation arrangements for the executive director. The executive director is the only paid employee (board members are not compensated) that requires the three-step safe-harbor practice. On an annual basis, the governance committee identifies if there are any conflicts of interest present among the governance members and ensures that no individual with a conflict ofinterest participates in the compensation review. The committee reviews and relies upon a minimum of 3 sources for comparability of compensation: 1. Third sector new england nonprofit salary survey. 2. The nonprofit times salary and benefit report. 3. Local salary data of ceo's of similar type and size organizations in the boston area, as disclosed on 990 tax documents. The governance committee determines the appropriate range of executive compensation to recommend by reviewing these sources and examining the staff and management salaries to monitor the ratio of the executive salary, to the lowest staff and management salaries. The governance committee makes a recommendation to the full board. The full board reviews, deliberates, and votes on the level of compensation awarded. This is captured in the board meeting minutes. The board of directors maintains documentation of the compensation review process and results.”

“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available to the public upon request. The organization has a finance committee that assumes responsibility for oversight of the audit of the annual financial statements. There have been no changes to this process.”