Mass. Attorney General Seeks to Curb Nonprofit Board Pay

Blasting pay for nonprofit groups’ part-time board members as “unjustified,” Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is seeking legislation giving her office authority to prohibit the fees, the Boston Herald and The Boston Globe report.

“The vast majority of board members at charities volunteer their service, and for good reason,” Ms. Coakley said Thursday in releasing a report by her office on compensation for nonprofit directors.

She reiterated her call for an end to directors pay of up to $82,500 a year at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, which have declined to follow Massachusetts’s other two nonprofit health insurers in abandoning board pay.