We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
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 -… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
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… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
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… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share
Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets. — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue,… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share
It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
When we show people that something is possible that they didn't think was possible it does more than just change things. It changes the way people think about the possibility of things changing. It helps them see that life is not the same day-after day, unsurprising, unending drudgery that so much of life teaches them that it is. And that… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share
