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| Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Pallotta
Publisher: Tufts
Category: Book
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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
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ISBN: 1584657235
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Uncharitable goes where no other book on the nonprofit sector has dared to tread. Where other texts suggest ways to optimizebrperformance inside the existing paradigm, Uncharitable suggests that the paradigm itself is the problem and calls into question our fundamental canons about charity. Author Dan Pallotta argues that society's nonprofit ethic acts as a strict regulatory mechanism on the natural economic law. It creates an economic apartheid that denies the nonprofit sector critical tools and permissions that the for-profit sector is allowed to use without restraint (e.g., no risk-reward incentives, no profit, counterproductive limits on compensation, and moral objections to the use of donated dollars for anything other than programbrexpenditures).brbrThese double-standards place the nonprofit sector at extreme disadvantage to the for profit sector on every level. While the for profit sector is permitted to use all the tools of capitalism to advance the sale of consumer goods, the nonprofit sector is prohibited from using any of them to fight hunger or disease. Capitalism is blamed for creating the inequities in our society, but charity is prohibited from using the tools of capitalism to rectify them.brbrIronically, this is all done in the name of charity, but it is a charity whose principal benefit flows to the for-profit sector and one that denies the nonprofit sector the tools and incentives that have built virtually everything of value in society. The very ethic we have cherished as the hallmark of our compassion is in fact what undermines it.brbrThis irrational system, Pallotta explains, has its roots in 400-year-old Puritan ethics that banished self-interest from the realm of charity. The ideology is policed today by watchdog agencies and the use of "efficiency" measures, which Pallotta argues are flawed, unjust, and should be abandoned. By declaring our independence from these obsolete ideas, Pallotta theorizes, we can dramatically accelerate progress on the most urgent social issues of our time. Pallotta has written an important, provocative, timely, and accessible book--a manifesto about equal economic rights for charity. Its greatest contribution may be to awaken society to the fact that they were so unequal in the first place.br
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 Bravo January 3, 2009
As a person who has worked in the non-profit sector, I often find myself exasperated from trying to explain the realities of this world to the rest of my family. br /br /With no idea of the myriad rules constraining current fundraising and spending potential, they assume that non-profit organizations are inherently rolling in money. But Dan Pallota's excellently researched book emphasizes that this is not the case. br /br /The rules which were initially set up to 'protect' non-profit organizations have ironically hindered them from exercising flexibility to take in money and successfully reach their mission. Because they cannot easily obtain money compared to their private sector counterparts, non-profits then inadvertently get into a rut of spending their time fundraising to keep the organization afloat versus having the organization help the community in which it sits. br /br /The flip side of this increased option would yes, entail increased risk. The rules currently enacted prevent non-profits from loosing their assets. But it can be argued that a non-profit which is not servicing as many people as it aspires to in a community looses the asset of community relevancy. And this then causes it to dry up and ultimately fold. It is not a viable community product if people cannot access it. br /
 Yes, but... January 2, 2009
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's hard to refute the ideas in this book if you take them on their own terms. But what the author has done is create a "separate universe." In order to implement many of his ideas, the tax code as it applies to charities would have to receive a major overhaul. And then there is the issue of whether charities can do much more than apply band-aids, anyway. Given the aspirations and goals of charities, many which have existed for 20, 30 or more years, how many can point to real, sustainable change they have created?br /br /Case in point: A human services professional was telling me a story of a child she is trying to help. This child is being placed in a residential treatment facility because his problems are so severe. Ironically, he is being placed in the same "cabin" at the same faciltiy his mother was in when she was his age. There are just too many stories like this to make a strong case that the nonprofit sector is living up to the goals it sets for itself and tells donors about in seeking their support.br /br /The issue is not how much we pay CEO's of nonprofits, how much they advertise, or how much they pursue goals entrepreneurially. The real issue is whether a charity is creating real, sustainable change...and we know from the long, ineffective story of social welfare in the US that just throwing money at a problem isn't going to solve it. br /br /This doesn't mean we should abandon the nonprofit sector. Some good is being done. But we need to hold it accountable for creating real, sustainable change in return for the investment we are already making in it and not just assume that applying capitalism to social welfare will create that kind of change.
A Passionate, Well-Argued, Fascinating Analysis of the World of Charity December 14, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Because I read a lot of books and articles on charity and philanthropy, I assumed this would be yet one more dull, earnest, attempt to improve the world of charitable giving, blah, blah, blah.br /br /To my great surprise, upon reading it I find instead of earnest well-intentioned gobbeldy-gook - BOOM!!!! Gay AIDS activist meets Ayn Rand, with all the moral passion and intelligence of both. Dan is someone who has seen countless friends die and committed his life to helping to find a cure for AIDS, raising over half a billion in charitable contributions in nine years, only to discover that the philosophical constraints on non-profits and conventional attitudes towards charity and philanthropy shackled his efforts and prevented him from doing more. And then instead of simply walking away bitterly after these forces destroy his organization in 2002, he sublimates his passion into a brilliant analysis of how our existing paradigm of charitable giving and non-profit structure is itself the problem.br /br /Dan had built a highly successful for-profit company that organized three day walks for breast cancer and multi-day bicycle riding events that were focused on fund-raising. His company raised more than half a billion dollars and netted more than $300 million dollars in unrestricted funds for AIDS and breast-cancer charities, as Dan says, "more money, raised more quickly, for these causes than any private event operation had raised in history." After his company collapsed, in part because of a breach of contract by the Avon Products Foundation after the controversies associated with his for-profit business model came to the fore, subsequent non-profit events based on the same model raised only a fraction of the amount his company had been raising. For instance, in 2002 Pallotta Teamworks raised $142.6 million for the breast cancer cause. The very next year, when Avon decided to try producing similar events on their own (in violation of their contract with his company), their events raised only $28.5 million and after four years they had only brought that up to $48.7 million - and yet Pallotta Teamworks had been criticized for operating as a for-profit; not focusing enough on the cause! Somehow it was more legitimate for a for-profit corporation's nonprofit arm - Avon - to raise less money for the cause simply because of our collective bigotries against capitalism.br /br /Palotta's book brilliantly integrates personal anecdote as a social entrepreneur, data-driven analysis of the weaknesses of the non-profit model, and deep insights into the fundamental guilt psychology of our existing models of charity. Give "Uncharitable" to someone for Christmas this year, a highly original gift that keeps on giving.
Necessary and Important Reading December 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For anyone who cares about solving social problems, Dan Pallotta's "Uncharitable" is essential reading. Anyone who has worked in or around the sector will immediately recognize the problems Pallotta painstakenly describes. But his ability to relate these problems to the larger issues (solving hunger, curing AIDS, etc.) is both mind-opening and disturbing. While we increasingly demand more of our nonprofits, and we also rightly demand increased accountability, this book shows that these competing demands are impossible with our current oversight system. Truly, a timely, compelling read. If you found compelling insights in "The Trouble with Government," you will find this book similarly eye-opening.
Fantastic Academic Work! December 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are serious about solving the great social problems of the world, this is a must read. Mr. Pallotta's book asks a simple question, is it possible that our beliefs about how nonprofits should operate prevent them from doing the good they seek to achieve? The answer Uncharitable develops is Yes! Regardless if you agree with the outcome, removing the dogmatic view (that charities should be small, good charities are the ones with a low overhead, charities should pay low wages and have little to know advertising) is necessary to create a world that we all know is possible.
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