{"id":588351,"date":"2018-09-08T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joangarry.com\/?p=588351"},"modified":"2022-08-11T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T13:36:13","slug":"ep-67-busting-the-overhead-myth","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/joangarry.com\/podcast\/ep-67-busting-the-overhead-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep 67: Busting the Overhead Myth (with Dan Pallotta)"},"content":{"rendered":"

High maintenance donors. Do-nothing boards. A lack of development resources.<\/p>\n

Running a nonprofit as a board or staff leader can be frustrating.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder it\u2018s so hard to scale. But what\u2019s the main issue standing between your nonprofit and success? Is it OVERHEAD?<\/p>\n

Really?<\/p>\n

When you want to make a difference in the world but you believe the holy grail of charity is low overhead, or that high administrative costs indicate a charity is not well run, you undermine your own ability to solve the problems you want to solve.<\/p>\n

Listen to this podcast to learn how my guest, Dan Pallotta  busts the overhead myth.<\/p>\n

About Dan Pallotta<\/h2>\n

(born January 21, 1961) is an American entrepreneur, author, and humanitarian activist. He is best known for his involvement in multi-day charitable events with the long-distance Breast Cancer 3-Day walks<\/a>, AIDS Rides<\/a> bicycle journeys, and Out of the Darkness<\/a> suicide prevention night walks. Over nine years, 182,000 people participated in these events and raised $582 million. They were the subject of a Harvard Business School case study.[2]<\/a> He is the author of Uncharitable \u2013 How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential, the best-selling title in the history of Tufts University Press<\/a>. He is also the author of Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up for Itself and Really Change the World, and When Your Moment Comes \u2013 a Guide to Fulfilling Your Dreams. He is the president of Advertising for Humanity and president and founder of the Charity Defense Council. He is a featured contributor to Harvard Business Review<\/a> online. In 2012 Pallotta wrote, Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up for Itself and Really Change the World, which Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.<\/a> called, \u201can Apollo program for American philanthropy and the nonprofit sector\u201d. The book calls for the creation of a \u201cCharity Defense Council\u201d to act as a national leadership organization for the humanitarian sector in the United States. In 2008 Pallotta wrote, Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential. It became the best-selling title in the history of Tufts University Press. The New York Times described it as seething “with indignation at public expectations that charities be prudent, nonprofit and saintly”. The Stanford Social Innovation Review wrote that the book, “deserves to become the nonprofit sector\u2019s new manifesto”. Former U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate Gary Hart wrote that the book was, \u201cnothing less than a revolutionary work”. Pallotta has given in excess of 150 speeches in 29 countries on the book as of December, 2012.<\/p>\n

In this Episode<\/h2>\n