>> 4. Don't offer large salaries to anyone. The role shouldn't attract people who care about salaries, even if it means you don't attract the "best talent". That "best talent" was probably going to wreck the organisation anyway.

> This seems counterproductive to me. If you don't pay people enough that they're worried about losing the position then they're incentivized to try and monetize whatever power they have, leading to corruption.

No, I think the idea is to offer something comfortable but not so large salary would attract people by itslef. You want to discourage the people who "try and monetize whatever power they have" from joining, and reduce the barriers to joining for people who aren't driven by greed.

And if you offer too much, people are incentivized to get the job for money, rather than because they want to do good.

Aligning incentives with goals is wise, but it's hard to do perfectly. Humans are still human.

There are a lot of jobs with high salaries out there, and most jobs have sufficient barrier to entry that you have to come to the table with something beyond "I'd like some money please".

I don't know, it just doesn't feel like there's a ton of risk of "non-profit board member" becoming the next gold-rush degree track.