Dan Pallotta: How to Make Charity Pay

As the creator of memorable and successful charity events such as the California AIDSRide, in which participants biked 575-miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles over seven days, and the Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk, in which participants covered 55 miles over several days, Dan Pallotta has long been recognized as a trailblazer in philanthropic circles. He has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for various causes and brought huge amounts of publicity to any number of issues.

In his groundbreaking new book, Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential , Pallotta makes the case that the nonprofit sector needs to be deregulated so that it can directly harness the energy of capitalism and the profit motive in pursuit of philanthropy.

Approximately nine minutes, this interview was conducted by Reason Foundation President David Nott and filmed and edited by Alex Manning.

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[AshillaBeige]

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.

[romeodawg]

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.

[felpaluche]

This is a video of fulfillment. Watch this!

[ynottonycom]

Thank you Dan Pallotta - you changed and empowered my life

[CommunityEnergyProj]

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.

[Wormtail81]

@Wormtail81 In that case you are my kind of woman : P

[AshillaBeige]

@Wormtail81 I`m not a `dude,` hun, but thanks.

[Wormtail81]

@AshillaBeige Dude, you are basically the symbol of what I love about Reason TV video comment boards.

[jKelbs]

This is a good idea. I would invest in Wikipedia, if given the option.

[Markees88]

This is great stuff- and I think is the type of thinking that can really create a positive impact on non-profits.

[jcdmachine]

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.

[Raptoreyes]

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.