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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Pallotta:Uncharitable page A More Advance Praise for Uncharitable and Dan Pallotta “For those of us who have labored in the trenches of the nonprofit world, this book comes like a rainstorm to a parched land. For too long society has demanded that the nonprofit sector put traditional operating procedure ahead of innovation. . . . Dan and his team have raised unprecedented sums to help treat devastating human disease. Our lab received $100,000 for research from one of his company’s events. The findings from that research allowed us to secure over $20 million more in federal grants. Those who would take issue with doing things in a new way will have to reconcile their reservations with those results.” —PeterAnton,M.D.,Professor of Medicine,and Director,Center for HIV Prevention Research,David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA “Dan is a pioneering individual of tremendous vision. A decade ago, he reinvented the concept of charitable fundraising—and his ideas now promise to reengineer the entire non-profit industry. The lines between the private sector and civil society already are blurring, but the momentum of Dan’s ideas will accelerate this fusion. Uncharitable is a must read for people seeking careers in social enterprise or attempting to drive meaning into their work.” —Jonathan Greenblatt,Co-Founder,EthosWater,and CEO, Good Magazine “Do the norms and values that have defined the way charity has been undertaken for centuries continue to make sense in the current age of globalization, mass marketing , and technology? Dan Pallotta makes a convincing case that the time has come to rigorously measure strategic impact rather than overhead ratios, be more competitive in regard to mass communications and marketing, and more adequately invest in administrative systems and program support.” —Charles MacCormack,President and CEO,Save the Children “Charitable non-profits exist to leverage our country’s prosperity for the benefit of those in need, and yet too often non-profits reject the tools and the techniques that have made that prosperity possible, shortchanging their noble causes in the process. With passion and logic, and drawing on his own deep well of experience, Dan Pallotta shows how the power of capitalism can be marshaled to the cause of compassion.” —Yuval Levin,Ethics and Public Policy Center,and formerAssociate Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and Coordinator of NationalAIDS Policy “America needs the smartest and most creative people operating its multi-billion dollar nonprofit sector. To attract them, we must be competitive in compensations, business management and fundraising ideas. Nonprofits who see themselves ‘poor as a church mouse’ do their mission and supporters a disservice.” —Morris Dees,Founder and ChiefTrial Counsel,Southern Poverty Law Center “Dan Pallotta’s book is a brilliant take on the absurdities that constrain the potential of our fastest growing sector—the nonprofit world in America. He raises questions that every executive director asks him or herself every week, but finds no public discourse on. Dan has put together a timely manifesto that outlines the only direction that makes sense—embracing true entrepreneurial initiative and challenging the paradoxical split in America that sets business free but straitjackets charities.” —Torie Osborn,SeniorAdvisor to LosAngeles MayorAntonioVillaraigosa,and former Executive Director,Liberty Hill Foundation,National Gay & LesbianTask Force,Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Community Services Center “As the chairman of a nonprofit policy institute, Dan Pallotta has clarified for me the explicit and many implicit constraints under which we operate. My thanks.” —WilliamA.Niskanen,Chairman,The Cato Institute “Dan Pallotta writes a commanding and compelling vision of what charities and nonpro fit organizations are capable of becoming if freed to fully embrace free enterprise thinking and action. He would have us break permanently from the notion that spending money in the service of raising money for deserving social causes is a sin. Anyone who cares about the vexing social and health problems facing society should pay close attention to the brilliant ideas percolating in this groundbreaking book.” —Everette J.Freeman,President,Albany State University “I have long considered Dan Pallotta a wise and visionary man with much to contribute to our world. This book proves it. His insights into charities and non-profits are...

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