Compensation Foundation is an online survey and database collecting, sharing, and analyzing information about how cultural producers are compensated.  

As a website, it will function primarily as an interactive survey.  After survey participation, users will be directed to the organization website which will display data highlights and have information about the organization.  Data will be displayed in a number of ways, have a peer verification system, and cultural organizations will also be able to enter how they compensate the artists they work with.

Compensation Foundation is a non-profit structure that will rely on donations from individuals and foundations.  

Competitive Review (pdf) or Google Doc

There are no direct competitors for this type of site, so the three examples are examples of

1. Cultural Data Project: a cultural organization dealing with data
2. Glass Door: a salary aggregator that depends on user input
3. My Slavery Footprint: a survey website that mimics the structure of survey-before-organization website structure that is being imagined.

Personas:

Content Inventory Cards:

Links to related organizations, groups, websites, Papers and Reports   Take the survey   Answers to the survey organized by type of cultural production   How to access the data   Updates of news, announcements, and interesting developments (blog)   Geographic sorting of data   Mission Statement   How you can help make the data better   Explanation of the peer and payer validation systems   Why we need to collect this information   API Documentation   Contact information   Who we are   Email Newsletter Sign up   Social Media links   Partner Organizations and descriptions   Sign up for an account to save your information and share your history   Why Organizations and Businesses should share what they pay.   Example Visualizations   Will my answers be anonymous?   Facebook and Twitter Feeds   What have people done with the data we've collected   Institutional and Corporate Sponsors   What we can do with additional financial support   Why should I share what I've gotten paid?   Our research methods   Explanation of the term "cultural producer"   Instructions on how individuals can donate to our organization   Article explaining How to ask for money without turning down a job.   Filter the data to your own specifications

If anyone wants to take a stab at my Optimal Sort: http://bit.ly/10WzTxM

Especially interested in freelancers, funders and researchers.