Thursday, March 28, 2013

TED Talk - "The Way We Think of Charity is Dead Wrong"




This TED talk raises some very interesting questions about how we run non-profit philanthropy. One of the killer lines is (in reference to a question everyone in non profit circles is asked - how big is your overhead?)  -

 So 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, their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams, how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come trueregardless of what the overhead is.

There is a lot of food for thought here.

How do we respond to this? What does it stir inside you?

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