I have to give Brad Shear of the Facebook group Non-Profit Happy Hour a significant tip of the hat for calling attention some interesting information about the non-profit starvation cycle buried in a Harvard Business Review piece about Business Management needing the influence of philosophers. I would likely not have read the piece long enough … Read more
Our friends at the Non-Profit Happy Hour Facebook group shared the Furniture Bank’s Charity Overhead Manifesto. In the post, the Furniture Bank talks about how much damage resistance to covering overhead can do to their programs. We have heard many of these arguments before, but Furniture Bank takes the next necessary step of humanizing and … Read more
FastCoExist recently continued its discussion about how a poor view of non-profit overhead cost is limiting the good such organizations can do by offering some “rebranding” suggestions in order to help change perceptions. As an illustration of how the concept that non-profits must restrict their overhead cost is a severe impediment toward doing good, they … Read more
Something I had meant to mention in my post yesterday was that Priceonomics’ admiration of Yerba Buena’s Dream House Raffle sounded very similar to fund raising philosophy espoused by Dan Pallotta. Said Priceonomics, There is something admirable about Yerba Buena’s Dream House Raffle. Every nonprofit spends a lot of time conducting and worrying about fundraising, … Read more