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        <Explanation>The Crohn's &amp; Colitis Foundation is dependent on experienced and qualified leadership to achieve its goals. Factors such as annual gross revenues, geographic locations, tenure, mission and other factors help determine senior leadership compensation. The President's compensation is determined on an annual basis by the Chairman of the Board using guidelines and comparability data provided in National Compensation Studies of Chief Staff Executives as statistically prepared by an independent research firm. The Foundation has taken further initiative to benchmark executive level pay by hiring an independent compensation consultant to review and validate the compensation it pays all employees. CCFA anticipates that the consultant will continue the Foundation's policy of relying on benchmarking surveys and other industry data to compare the salaries CCFA pays to its executives with compensation paid to executives of other not for profit organizations of similar size.</Explanation>
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