How we set up non-profits to fail

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🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Dan Pallotta is the architect behind some of the biggest non-profit events like the Breast Cancer 3-Day walks and AIDS Rides, which have collectively raised vast sums for various non-profits. But Dan thinks conventional wisdom surrounding non-profits is all wrong: in his view, traditional metrics like low overhead and minimal staff costs hinder non-profits and prevent them from attracting top talent, investing in advertising, and innovating in fundraising. In this episode, Dan argues for a paradigm shift to unshackle non-profits and allow them to reach their fullest potential. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/au4pgoV_k7s Uncharitable Movie - https://uncharitablemovie.com Follow Dan Pallotta: https://danpallotta.com | https://twitter.com/danpallotta Follow Andrew Yang: https://andrewyang.com | https://twitter.com/andrewyang To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on forward.
0:04.0	You want to know why nonprofits haven't changed the world the way we hope that they would?
0:09.0	Because that is not what we asked them to do.
0:12.0	We asked them emphatically and consistently and we still do keep your overhead
0:17.0	and your salaries low so that's what they did and if you keep your overhead and
0:21.5	your salaries low we will reward you with donations,
0:24.6	regardless of the fact that you may not be having any impact in the world.
0:28.3	And impact becomes an entirely secondary thing. It's my pleasure to welcome to the podcast a hero of mine entrepreneur author activist
0:48.2	nonprofit leader you might know him from his world famous Ted Talks, plural.
0:53.0	Dan Palata, welcome Dan.
0:55.0	Thanks for having me, Andrew.
0:57.0	It's good to be with you.
0:58.0	So I left out movie star.
1:00.0	You are the star of a new documentary that I thought was brilliant and as we're having this conversation
1:06.1	it may be on streamers right now uncharitable. Tell me a little bit, by the though I watched the movie and I thought it was awesome
1:15.6	But how the heck did this movie come about and let's go a little bit further just so people who don't know you I feel like everyone should know who you are. If you don't know who
1:22.9	Dan Pilata is literally Google right now Dan Pilata TED Talk it'll be the best
1:27.4	15 minutes you spend for quite some time. But somehow that TED Talk evolved into a
1:32.0	full-fledged documentary feature.
1:33.7	Yeah, it started with a book I wrote for Tufts University Press in 2009 called Uncharitable
1:39.5	after I had created the AIDS rides and the breast cancer three days and we raised almost
1:44.5	600 million dollars in nine years and were the subject of Harvard School
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