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Dan Pallotta

Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.

Charity, Fundraising, Growth, Solve, Spend
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We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

Helping Others, Inspiration, Motivation, Notion, People, Visceral

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.

Apples, Come, Dream, Google, Overhead, Scale

While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While business takes chances, charity is expected to be cautious. We measure the success of businesses over the long term, but we want our gratification in charity immediately. We are taught that a return on investment should be offered for making consumer goods, but not for making a better world.

Guilt, Long, Return, Success, Told, World

People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.

Care, People, Use, Yearning

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low. ' We want it to read that we changed the world.

Change, Charity, Doe, Epitaph, Generation, Our Generation
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