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Corporate Sponsorships and Endorsements: At What ‘Cost’ to Your Independence?
Volume 25 No. 2 // February 13, 2000
Sponsorships and endorsements are not new in private-independent schools. Local merchants support your school by placing ads in the yearbook, the students’ newspaper, and the program book for your fund raiser. Each year, local businesses sponsor your golf tournament or charity auction. These are “innocent” endeavors with, usually, no strings attached. Funds are raised without tapping parent and alumni checkbooks.
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Attracting and Retaining a Head: An Analysis of the 1999-2000 Head Compensation Survey
Volume 25 No. 1 // January 14, 2000
ISM recently surveyed Heads about their compensation. We randomly selected 398 Heads from our I&P subscribers; 250 responded. (See the chart “About the Respondents” on page 4 for more information on the survey participants.) This article examines Heads’ salaries and implications for the Board; a subsequent article will analyze Heads’ benefits.
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