This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves. —ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL

Phrases like social innovation, social entrepreneurship, and social enterprise either hadn’t been coined or were not yet widely used. There was no Stanford Social Innovation Review, no Social Enterprise Program at Harvard Business School.

I instead refer to the sector throughout the book as the humanitarian sector. Others call it the social profit sector, the third sector, the independent sector, or a number of other things. Any one of them is better than nonprofit.

The Hunger Project transformed our thinking about hunger from being retrospective to being original. It could be our own.

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

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

Because the general public donates 75 percent of the $300 billion given to charity every year. Because elected officials and regulators create public policy and contract guidelines based on what they think the public wants.

This book is about finding the way forward to make our dreams for humanity a reality. It’s about confronting the four-hundred-year-old rule book by which all organizations fighting for worthy causes—from disease to poverty to injustice—are forced to play.

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