Uncharitable - How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential (Paperback)

Uncharitable investigates how for-profit strategies could and should be used by nonprofits. Uncharitable goes where no other book on the nonprofit sector has dared to tread. Where other texts suggest ways to optimize performance inside the existing charity paradigm, Uncharitable suggests that the paradigm itself is the problem and calls into question our fundamental canons about charity. Dan Pallotta argues that society's nonprofit ethic creates an inequality 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 an extreme disadvantage. While the for-profit sector is permitted to use all the tools of capitalism, the nonprofit sector is prohibited from using any of them. Capitalism is blamed for creating inequities in our society, but charity is prohibited from using the tools of capitalism to rectify them-and ironically, this is all done in the name of charity. This irrational system, Pallotta explains, has its roots in four-hundred-year-old Puritan ethics that banished self-interest from the realm of charity. The ideology is policed today by watchdog agencies and the use of so-called efficiency measures, which Pallotta argues are flawed, unjust, and should be abandoned. By declaring our independence from these obsolete ideas, Pallotta theorizes, we can dramatically accelerate progress on the most urgent social issues of our time. Uncharitable is an important, provocative, timely, and accessible book-a manifesto about equal economic rights for charity. This edition has a new, updated introduction by the author.

General

Imprint:	Brandeis University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Dan Pallotta
Dimensions:	152 x 229 x 1mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-1-68458-124-5
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > Charities & voluntary services Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Promotions
LSN:	1-68458-124-9
Barcode:	9781684581245

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