Uncharitable: how restraints on nonprofits undermine their potential

Where other books on the nonprofit sector suggest ways to optimize performance inside the existing paradigm, Uncharitable suggests that the paradigm itself is the problem and calls into question our fundamental canons about charity. Author Dan Pallotta argues that society's nonprofit ethic acts...

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Main Author: Pallotta, Dan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Medford, Mass. Tufts Univ. Press 2008
Series:Civil society : historical and contemporary perspectives
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Summary:Where other books on the nonprofit sector suggest ways to optimize performance inside the existing paradigm, Uncharitable suggests that the paradigm itself is the problem and calls into question our fundamental canons about charity. Author Dan Pallotta argues that society's nonprofit ethic acts as a strict regulatory mechanism on the natural economic law. It creates an economic apartheid that denies the nonprofit sector critical tools and permissions that the for-profit sector is allowed to use without restraint. These double standards place the nonprofit sector at extreme disadvantage on every level. While the for-profit sector is permitted to use all the tools of capitalism to advance the sale of consumer goods, the nonprofit sector is prohibited from using any of them to fight hunger or disease. --From publisher description.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:XV, 312 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:9781584657231

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