Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World

But this is not a zero-sum game. The money paid to a valuable CEO is not money taken away from the cause. It’s an investment in the cause.

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In the book, I quoted Buckminster Fuller: “A problem well-stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.” I wanted to state the problem clearly.

the list goes on—and each group has its own segregated annual conference—TED, ARNOVA, Social Enterprise World Forum, Council on Foundations Annual Meeting. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of separate large conferences on social change.

The symbiotic relationship of donor and recipient has proved to be sustainable and perpetuating—to the detriment of vital social issues.

let’s say Jonas Salk spent $10 million to raise $20 million to find a cure for polio. We divide the $10 million he spent into the $20 million he raised and say he had 50 percent overhead. But raising $20 million was not his result. His result was a cure for polio. If you divide $10 million into the value of a cure for polio—tens, maybe hundreds of

What good is it to know that 95 percent of your donation goes to the cause if you don’t know that all of the money going to the cause is being wasted?

Self-deprivation is still the prescribed path to social change.

Since 1970, the number of nonprofit organizations that have crossed the $50 million annual revenue barrier is 144. The number of for-profits that have crossed it is 46,136.25 Eighty-eight