Dan Pallotta

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Charity Case (eBook, PDF)

How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World

Beschreibung

A blueprint for a national leadership movement to transform the way the public thinks about giving Virtually everything our society has been taught about charity is backwards. We deny the social sector the ability to grow because of our short-sighted demand that it send every short-term dollar into direct services. Yet if the sector cannot grow, it can never match the scale of our great social problems. In the face of this dilemma, the sector has remained silent, defenseless, and disorganized. In Charity Case, Pallotta proposes a visionary solution: a Charity Defense Council to re-educate the public and give charities the freedom they need to solve our most pressing social issues. * Proposes concrete steps for how a national Charity Defense Council will transform the public understanding of the humanitarian sector, including: building an anti-defamation league and legal defense for the sector, creating a massive national ongoing ad campaign to upgrade public literacy about giving, and ultimately enacting a National Civil Rights Act for Charity and Social Enterprise * From Dan Pallotta, renowned builder of social movements and inventor of the multi-day charity event industry (including the AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer 3-Days) that has cumulatively raised over $1.1 billion for critical social causes * The hotly-anticipated follow-up to Pallotta's groundbreaking book Uncharitable Grounded in Pallotta's clear vision and deep social sector experience, Charity Case is a fascinating wake-up call for fixing the culture that thwarts our charities' ability to change the world.

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Autor

Dan Pallotta is a builder of movements. He created the multi-day charitable fundraising event industry, including the AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer 3-Days, which raised $582 million in nine years and were the subject of a Harvard Business School case study. Multi-day charitable events have raised in excess of $1.1 billion to date. The Stanford Social Innovation Review said his groundbreaking 2009 book Uncharitable deserves to become "the nonprofit sector's new manifesto." He lives in Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.charitycasebook.com

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118224489
• Artikelnr.: 38235608

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"Charity Case is an Apollo program for Americanphilanthropy and the nonprofit sector. Pallotta'sunderstanding of the hamstrung nonprofit sector is poetic andtherapeutic. His prescription is sensible and profound. CharityCase will inspire its readers with an expansive sense ofpossibility."
-- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"Every once in a while a book states the obvious insuch a compelling way that it rises to the level of genius.Charity Case is that exciting. It dares the whole of thecharitable industry to raise its voice to the level of the musicbusiness and other consumer giants. In its insistence that theindustry reject the role of second-class citizen, it has thepotential to make charity sexy, and that's the only waycharity's

ever going to change the world."
--Clive Davis, chief creative officer, Sony Music; founder,Arista Records; former president, Columbia Records

"If we had a prize for the most innovative thinking aboutcharity and social change it would go to Dan Pallotta. CharityCase is the blueprint for unleashing the awesome power of thissector and enlightening the society that unknowingly holds it back.Simply brilliant and in a class by itself."
--Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO, X PRIZEFoundation

"Dan Pallotta invites, tempts, and provokes every singleone of us to think differently about the humanitarian sector. Hehas a big vision and artfully makes a case for creating asector-wide movement capable of power-ful actions andneedle-moving change that improve lives. In this rapidly changingand increasingly complex world, Dan's voice is crisp, clear,and compelling."
--Diana Aviv, president and CEO, Independent Sector

"Dan Pallotta is a big thinker--impatient, generous,and insightful. It's worth hearing him out."
--Seth Godin, author, Tribes

"The nonprofit world needs innovation, and Dan Pallotta ishelping us see how new ideas can help make our world moresuccessful. In these tough times, we need his out-of-the-boxideas!"
--Bobby Shriver, cofounder, Product (RED)

"Charity Case is visionary in its empathy. Itsympathizes with the donating public's confusion about howcharity really works and with the nonprofit sector's plea tobe held to standards that engender trust and grow support. At thatintersection lies the promise of a new era of enlightenment aboutcharity and social change."
--Art Taylor, president, Better Business Bureau Wise GivingAlliance

"Charity Case takes innovative thinking about thesocial sector to an entirely new level. Dan Pallotta raises theradical prospect that we can change cultural conventions aboutcharity, making a cause of causes themselves. A powerful call toaction."
--Jane Wei-Skillern, adjunct associate professor, HaasSchool, University of California, Berkeley; lecturer, StanfordGraduate School of Business

"It doesn't occur to Dan Pallotta that standing onthe sidelines is an option. And he makes it impossible for the restof us to stand back. Charity Case is a wakeup call for everyfundraiser around the world. We are the public champions ofphilanthropy--it's just that not all of us have beenaware of that until now."
--Andrew Watt, president and CEO, Association ofFundraising Professionals