Just out of curiosity...

[conuly]

If I wanted to compare the salaries paid for board members at Autism Speaks with comparable organizations, which ones should I pick? Yes, I know, ASAN, but what else? I spend so much time dwelling on their evilly evilness that I don't really know what other organizations there even are!

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[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Easter Seals
Autism Acceptance Project (yay!)
and good old Autism Research Institute (Bernie the Brain).

I can't think of any others that are into autism. For non-autism ones, Susan G. Komen Foundation (the Autism Speaks of breast cancer as far as I'm concerned), March of Dimes.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

It's like comparing mainstream Christianity and Wicca: there isn't any way to determine what is 'comparable', because they're apples-and-oranges: Mainstrean Christianity has physical property, paid clergy and other staff, member pledges, tax lawyers. The Craft operates for the most part out of the homes of UNpaid clergy and membership is free. That's the same as the autistic advocacy network: we're not an 'organization', we're a rabble of individuals with computers, struggling to pay for our sites out of our own pockets.

This might seem like a weakness, but actually it's an advantage and a safeguard: first of all, we have no Profit Motive, unlike Autism Speaks, that rakes in the donations by fear-mongering and guilt-tripping. We have no Profit; we're not worth sueing because most of us have nothing, and there's no Corporate Entity to target.... just a bunch of individuals with computers. .Power to the people; can't stop the signal - "grassroots organization" is an oxymoron, as everyone knows who has tried to organize one - the more you achieve organization, the more your 'grassroots' becomes a monoculture..