Dan Pallotta on Charity and the Culture of the Non-Profit Sector

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🗓️ 17 June 2013

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Dan Pallotta, Chief Humanity Officer of Advertising for Humanity and author of Uncharitable talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book. Pallotta argues that charities are deeply handicapped by their culture and how we view them. The use of overhead as a measure of effectiveness makes it difficult for charities to attract the best talent, advertise, and invest for the future. Pallotta advocates a new culture for non-profits that takes the best aspects of the for-profit sector to enhance the mission and effectiveness of charities.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:11.0	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:16.0	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:19.0	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:23.3	back to 2006.
0:25.4	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:28.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:33.0	Today is May 23, 2013, and my guest is Dan Palata.
0:38.0	Dan is Chief Humanity Officer of Advertising for Humanity.
0:42.2	Advertising for Humanity works with foundations and donors to improve charities they care
0:45.5	about.
0:46.6	He created Palata Teamworks, which created multi-day charitable events that raised hundreds
0:52.1	of millions of dollars to fight AIDS and breast cancer, and he is the author of Unsharedable.
0:57.8	How restraints on nonprofits undermine their potential.
1:01.5	Dan, welcome to Econ Talk.
1:03.5	Thanks for having me.
1:06.2	Our topic for today is your book Unsharedable.
1:08.6	It's a rather extraordinary book which I found extremely interesting and provocative.
1:13.2	If you're involved in a charity out there listening or you give to a charity which I hope
1:16.8	is almost all of you, you should read this book or watch Dan's TED Talk or listen to
1:22.3	this rest of his podcast.
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