Charity Case Quotes

“And they are tired of being told to “act more like a business” by businesspeople who refuse to allow them to use any of the real tools of business—adequate resources, to begin with.”
― Dan Pallotta, Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World

“Imagine this: you log onto Everycharity.org, and the site is as visually seductive as iTunes. It most definitely does not look as if it was designed by a Ph.D. candidate in accounting. The icons look so good you want to lick them, as Steve Jobs once remarked about the icons in the Mac operating system. Instead of reading like it was written by a committee of academics, it’s as easy to understand as Mr. Rogers. Instead of being filled with acronyms and social service jargon, it contains words that anyone can understand. The words actually inspire you instead of confusing you. Instead of intimidating, it invites.”
― Dan Pallotta, Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World

“Since 1970, the number of nonprofit organizations that have crossed the $50 million annual revenue barrier is 144.”
― Dan Pallotta, Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World

“If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.”
― Dan Pallotta, Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World