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- 9781584659556
- Book Title
- Uncharitable : How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University Press of New England
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Trade Paperback, Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Business & Economics, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Political Process / General, Philanthropy & Charity, General, Nonprofit Organizations & Charities / General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 19.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Uncharitable goes where no other book on the nonprofitsector has dared to tread. Where other texts suggest ways to optimizeperformance inside the existing paradigm, Uncharitablesuggests that the paradigm itself is the problem and calls intoquestion our fundamental canons about charity. Author Dan Pallottaargues that society's nonprofit ethic acts as a strict regulatorymechanism on the natural economic law. It creates an economic apartheidthat denies the nonprofit sector critical tools and permissions thatthe for-profit sector is allowed to use without restraint (e.g., norisk-reward incentives, no profit, counterproductive limits oncompensation, and moral objections to the use of donated dollars foranything other than program expenditures). These double-standards place the nonprofit sector at extremedisadvantage to the for profit sector on every level. While the forprofit sector is permitted to use all the tools of capitalism toadvance the sale of consumer goods, the nonprofit sector is prohibitedfrom using any of them to fight hunger or disease. Capitalism is blamedfor creating the inequities in our society, but charity is prohibitedfrom using the tools of capitalism to rectify them. Ironically, this is all done in the name of charity, but it is acharity whose principal benefit flows to the for-profit sector and onethat denies the nonprofit sector the tools and incentives that havebuilt virtually everything of value in society. The very ethic we havecherished as the hallmark of our compassion is in fact what underminesit. This irrational system, Pallotta explains, has its roots in400-year-old Puritan ethics that banished self-interest from the realmof charity. The ideology is policed today by watchdog agencies and theuse of "efficiency" measures, which Pallotta argues areflawed, unjust, and should be abandoned. By declaring our independencefrom these obsolete ideas, Pallotta theorizes, we can dramaticallyaccelerate progress on the most urgent social issues of our time.Pallotta has written an important, provocative, timely, and accessiblebook-a manifesto about equal economic rights for charity. Itsgreatest contribution may be to awaken society to the fact that theywere so unequal in the first place.
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University Press of New England
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1584659556
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9781584659556
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Book Title
Uncharitable : How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential
Format
Trade Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Political Process / General, Philanthropy & Charity, General, Nonprofit Organizations & Charities / General
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Business & Economics, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages
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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
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Publication Date
2010-07-13
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"Philanthropists and charity execs should read [Uncharitable to ponder, if judiciously, its lessons."--Boston Globe, "Philanthropists and charity execs should read [Uncharitable] to ponder, if judiciously, its lessons."-Boston Globe, "Pallotta turns on its head the assumption that charity and capitalism should be forever divided. Don't charitable causes deserve the same kind of competitive forces that work to get results in the for-profit sector? Wouldn't social causes be better served if charitable organizations were headed by the kind of bright, aggressive executives that work in the for-profit sector? Pallotta traces the history of nonprofit organizations to Puritan notions of charity and self-denial. He also offers a detailed case study of TeamWorks and other trends in the nonprofit sector that only tweak around the edges of a system that is sorely in need of change if it is to deliver on its mission to improve social inequities or cure diseases. A passionate, thought-provoking look at the nonprofit sector."--Booklist, "Philanthropists and charity execs should read [Uncharitable] to ponder, if judiciously, its lessons."ÑBoston Globe, "Philanthropists and charity execs should read [Uncharitable] to ponder, if judiciously, its lessons."--Boston Globe, "Philanthropists and charity execs should read [Uncharitable to ponder, if judiciously, its lessons."-Boston Globe, "Pallotta turns on its head the assumption that charity and capitalism should be forever divided. Don't charitable causes deserve the same kind of competitive forces that work to get results in the for-profit sector? Wouldn't social causes be better served if charitable organizations were headed by the kind of bright, aggressive executives that work in the for-profit sector? Pallotta traces the history of nonprofit organizations to Puritan notions of charity and self-denial. He also offers a detailed case study of TeamWorks and other trends in the nonprofit sector that only tweak around the edges of a system that is sorely in need of change if it is to deliver on its mission to improve social inequities or cure diseases. A passionate, thought-provoking look at the nonprofit sector." Booklist, "This tome is big-time out-of-the-box thinking that will cause ripples. Yet if you care about charity, it is a must read. While I don't want to lose the volunteer passion and compassion in charitable work, it's high time we confront the fact that, for the most part, this is no longer a bake sale."ÑIn Los Angeles Magazine, "This tome is big-time out-of-the-box thinking that will cause ripples. Yet if you care about charity, it is a must read. While I don't want to lose the volunteer passion and compassion in charitable work, it's high time we confront the fact that, for the most part, this is no longer a bake sale."-In Los Angeles Magazine, "This tome is big-time out-of-the-box thinking that will cause ripples. Yet if you care about charity, it is a must read. While I don't want to lose the volunteer passion and compassion in charitable work, it's high time we confront the fact that, for the most part, this is no longer a bake sale."--In Los Angeles Magazine, "Pallotta turns on its head the assumption that charity and capitalism should be forever divided. Don't charitable causes deserve the same kind of competitive forces that work to get results in the for-profit sector? Wouldn't social causes be better served if charitable organizations were headed by the kind of bright, aggressive executives that work in the for-profit sector? Pallotta traces the history of nonprofit organizations to Puritan notions of charity and self-denial. He also offers a detailed case study of TeamWorks and other trends in the nonprofit sector that only tweak around the edges of a system that is sorely in need of change if it is to deliver on its mission to improve social inequities or cure diseases. A passionate, thought-provoking look at the nonprofit sector."- Booklist, "Philanthropists and charity execs should read [Uncharitable] to ponder, if judiciously, its lessons."- Boston Globe, "Pallotta turns on its head the assumption that charity and capitalism should be forever divided. Don't charitable causes deserve the same kind of competitive forces that work to get results in the for-profit sector? Wouldn't social causes be better served if charitable organizations were headed by the kind of bright, aggressive executives that work in the for-profit sector? Pallotta traces the history of nonprofit organizations to Puritan notions of charity and self-denial. He also offers a detailed case study of TeamWorks and other trends in the nonprofit sector that only tweak around the edges of a system that is sorely in need of change if it is to deliver on its mission to improve social inequities or cure diseases. A passionate, thought-provoking look at the nonprofit sector."-Booklist, "Mr Pallotta produces quite a lot of both data and logic. If you do not first analyse a fund-raiser's results, how is it possible to judge whether what it spent was justified? He also makes a convincing case for charities to spend far more on advertising, perhaps even selling shares to pay for it. If this makes you queasy, read Mr Pallotta's book. As he says, "To mount a campaign to convert 6 billion people to love--which is essentially the role of charity--takes a lot of money...Raise the capital to promote the idea by offering a return on investment, hire the best people to manage the effort, and run the advertising to spread the word. You beat capitalism at its own game."- The Economist, "Mr Pallotta produces quite a lot of both data and logic. If you do not first analyse a fund-raiser's results, how is it possible to judge whether what it spent was justified? He also makes a convincing case for charities to spend far more on advertising, perhaps even selling shares to pay for it. If this makes you queasy, read Mr Pallotta's book. As he says, "To mount a campaign to convert 6 billion people to love--which is essentially the role of charity--takes a lot of money...Raise the capital to promote the idea by offering a return on investment, hire the best people to manage the effort, and run the advertising to spread the word. You beat capitalism at its own game."--The Economist, "Mr Pallotta produces quite a lot of both data and logic. If you do not first analyse a fund-raiser's results, how is it possible to judge whether what it spent was justified? He also makes a convincing case for charities to spend far more on advertising, perhaps even selling shares to pay for it. If this makes you queasy, read Mr Pallotta's book. As he says, "To mount a campaign to convert 6 billion people to love--which is essentially the role of charity--takes a lot of money...Raise the capital to promote the idea by offering a return on investment, hire the best people to manage the effort, and run the advertising to spread the word. You beat capitalism at its own game."-The Economist, "This tome is big-time out-of-the-box thinking that will cause ripples. Yet if you care about charity, it is a must read. While I don't want to lose the volunteer passion and compassion in charitable work, it's high time we confront the fact that, for the most part, this is no longer a bake sale."- In Los Angeles Magazine
Table of Content
Introduction * The Morality of Outcomes * Nonprofit Ideology * A Model of Christian Charity * Conclusion * The Foundations of Our Misconstruction * Economic Apartheid * The First Error--Constraints on Compensation: Charity and Self-Deprivation Are Not the Same Thing * The Second Error--Prohibition on Risk: Punishing Courage, Rewarding Timidity * The Third Error--Discouragement of Long-Term Vision: The Need for Immediate Gratification Institutionalizes Suffering * The Fourth Error--Discouragement of Paid Advertising: If You Don't Advertise Here, Your Competition Will * The Fifth Error--Prohibition on Investment Return: The Limits of No Return, and a Stock Market for Charity * Conclusion * Stop Asking This Question * Efficiency Measures--The Puritan Guard * Efficiency Measures Miss the Point * Efficiency Measures Don't Measure Efficiency * Efficiency Measures Are Unjust * Overhead Is a Fiction * Summary * New Questions and a Very Large Assessment Apparatus * Courage * A Cold World? * Strategic Plan * Reclaiming Our Dreams * Acknowledgments * Case Study--Pallotta TeamWorks * Methods and Controversy * Collapse of the Company * Impact on Organizations' AIDS and Breast Cancer Fundraising * Notes * Bibliography * Index
Copyright Date
2010
Dewey Decimal
338.7/4
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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