Dan Pallotta: The Way We Think About Charity Is Dead Wrong
The things we’ve been taught to think about charity and the nonprofit sector are actually undermining the causes we love and our profound yearning to change the world.
If we really want a world that works for everyone, with no one and nothing left out, then the nonprofit sector has to be a serious part of this. However, what the nonprofit sector is doing doesn’t seem to be working; poverty and homelessness still exist and cures for cancer haven’t been found. This is because these social problems are massive in scale and our organisations are tiny up against them, and we have a belief system that keeps them tiny. We have a different set of rules for the nonprofit sector than for the rest of the economic worldContinue Reading