A fascinating and eloquent account of the double standards placed on nonprofits. I cannot help but feel that the for-profit world needs play more by the nonprofit worlds rules then the other way around. There's no job that deserves making half a million a year, but most nonprofit workers I know meet the income guidelines for the very services they provide. CEO's need to learn to live within reasonable limits, and for-profit companies should be motivated by more then the bottom line.
Hey this guy has a point. Non profits SHOULD play on the same level playing field as for profit organizations. Somebody let Washington know there'e a whole untapped sector of the economy to tax and regulate.
As an American that wants to see the government shrink and private enterprise grow... this man may have given me a new tool to effect that goal, even at sorry stage of history. The peoples ravenous appetite for government services makes it VERY hard to reduce the size of government. Removing the barriers to true charity, instead of this stilted deformed version the Puritans left us, may be the way to win the culture war. Without right wing religious paternalism. Or liberal nanny state.
In regard to the third point made in this video, I don't believe charities should be taking big risks since they are using money that people gave in the assumption that it will be used to help people. Charities shouldn't be taking such chances.
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Wow... I never thought of that. What if there was a living standard code that would disallow CEO's of charities from living in Mansions and owning yachts, instead reinvested into the organization or its employees in order to grow into an even more charitable organization?
Yeah, like the fucking bureaucrats and politicians who just voted to give themselves a pay increase. The government has a monopoly on charity, but it's not charity at all.
Private charities are notoriously effective and don't have the CEO's you speak of.
Private individuals have done more for the victims of Katrina than the government, which won't allow people to fix their homes. Quit hating on private charity.
Brilliant -- I hope more people read Uncharitable. These ideas are the trojan horse for real change that all of us in the non-profit sector are working for.
This is a video of fulfillment. Watch this!
felpaluche 2 months ago
Thank you Dan Pallotta - you changed and empowered my life
ynottonycom 1 year ago
A fascinating and eloquent account of the double standards placed on nonprofits. I cannot help but feel that the for-profit world needs play more by the nonprofit worlds rules then the other way around. There's no job that deserves making half a million a year, but most nonprofit workers I know meet the income guidelines for the very services they provide. CEO's need to learn to live within reasonable limits, and for-profit companies should be motivated by more then the bottom line.
CommunityEnergyProj 1 year ago
This is a good idea. I would invest in Wikipedia, if given the option.
jKelbs 2 years ago
This is great stuff- and I think is the type of thinking that can really create a positive impact on non-profits.
Markees88 2 years ago
Hey this guy has a point. Non profits SHOULD play on the same level playing field as for profit organizations. Somebody let Washington know there'e a whole untapped sector of the economy to tax and regulate.
jcdmachine 2 years ago
As an American that wants to see the government shrink and private enterprise grow... this man may have given me a new tool to effect that goal, even at sorry stage of history. The peoples ravenous appetite for government services makes it VERY hard to reduce the size of government. Removing the barriers to true charity, instead of this stilted deformed version the Puritans left us, may be the way to win the culture war. Without right wing religious paternalism. Or liberal nanny state.
Raptoreyes 2 years ago
In regard to the third point made in this video, I don't believe charities should be taking big risks since they are using money that people gave in the assumption that it will be used to help people. Charities shouldn't be taking such chances.
98nafets 2 years ago
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Wow... I never thought of that. What if there was a living standard code that would disallow CEO's of charities from living in Mansions and owning yachts, instead reinvested into the organization or its employees in order to grow into an even more charitable organization?
DSAhmed 2 years ago
Yeah, like the fucking bureaucrats and politicians who just voted to give themselves a pay increase. The government has a monopoly on charity, but it's not charity at all.
Private charities are notoriously effective and don't have the CEO's you speak of.
Private individuals have done more for the victims of Katrina than the government, which won't allow people to fix their homes. Quit hating on private charity.
AshillaBeige 2 years ago 8
@AshillaBeige Dude, you are basically the symbol of what I love about Reason TV video comment boards.
Wormtail81 1 year ago
@Wormtail81 I`m not a `dude,` hun, but thanks.
AshillaBeige 1 year ago
@Wormtail81 In that case you are my kind of woman : P
Wormtail81 1 year ago
Yes well said
darkwhitedirewolf 2 years ago 3
Brilliant -- I hope more people read Uncharitable. These ideas are the trojan horse for real change that all of us in the non-profit sector are working for.
romeodawg 2 years ago 7