| UNCHARITABLE:
UNCHARITABLE invites us to think beyond nonprofit ideology and bring economic freedom to the causes we love. Author Dan Pallotta (the founder of Pallotta TeamWorks who created the AIDS Rides and the Breast Cancer 3-Days charity events) argues that nonprofit ideology is a hold-over from Puritan ethics and effectively stifles natural economic law, putting the nonprofit sector at an extreme disadvantage in our for-profit world. In other words, the very system long cherished as the hallmark of American compassion is its own worst enemy. While the for-profit sector is permitted to use all the tools of capitalism to advance the sale of consumer goods, the nonprofit sector is prohibited from using any of them to fight hunger or disease. Capitalism is blamed for creating the inequities in our society, but charity, by its own ideology, is prohibited from using capitalism's tools to rectify them, creating the most extreme injustice. By ridding ourselves of these obsolete ideas, Pallotta theorizes, we can dramatically accelerate progress on the most urgent social issues of our time. UNCHARITABLE is an important, provocative,
timely, and accessible book that will forever change the way you
think about "charity." |
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