Making The Case to Pay Non-Profit Board Members

The National Association of Nonprofit Organizations & Executives is making a push to change the model of corporate governance for non-profits. Included within this new model is the payment of board members. Currently, only about 1% of non-profits in the U.S. actually compensate their board members.
I continue to struggle with this issue. Several years ago I viewed it as entirely inappropriate to compensate board members of non-profits. More recently, I believe a strong case can be made for compensating board members -- particularly larger non-profits which operate more like a for-profit than a non-profit.
I'm curious as to what ...
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