With charity for all
by Ken Stern · first published 2013
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The author, a former head of a major nonprofit reveals surprising failings in the charitable world while outlining a new paradigm for charitable activities in America, sharing insights into the unique marketplace incentives and flaws of nonprofit organizations based on his tours of unaccountable U.S. charities. Vast and largely unexamined, the world of American charities accounts for fully 10 percent of economic activity in this country, yet operates with little accountability, no real barriers to entry, and a stunning lack of evidence of effectiveness. This book reveals a problem hidden in pl
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That is simply not true. Charity is not just about throwing money at poor This is an important and underappreciated point. Ken Stern makes it in his book With Charity For All, which I wrote more about here: http://blog.seliger.com/2013/06/02/with-charity-for-all-ken-... . In essence, we spend a lot of money on various charitable efforts without knowing what those efforts are…
on “Good News You Might Have Missed in 2013” ↗…since they can't figure out how to scale or operate more efficiently because their budget is tied so directly to services. For more than this, see the reasoning and extensive examples in Ken Stern's book With Charity For All. I wrote about it here: http://blog.seliger.com/2013/06/02/with-charity-for-all-ken-... , and anyone interested in how the charitable subset of nonprofits actually operate should read the book. (I'm…
on “Watsi (YC W13) raises $1.2M first-of-its-kind 'philanthropic seed round'” ↗…maintained top skills. The answer is- your long term earnings will absolutely be reduced, though not for the already cited reasons. Essential books to read before going into the non-profit space: * With Charity For All - Ken Stern * Doing Good Better - Bill MacAskill Also, read SSIR, it has the best coverage of emerging trends in the non-profit space: http://ssir.org/ The short answer is- if income is important…
on “Ask HN: Will being an engineer at a nonprofit reduce your longterm earnings?” ↗Correct. I realize that I've been talking about this book a lot on HN lately, but Ken Stern's With Charity For All discusses both the promise of Givewell and the challenges—specifically, few nonprofits actually measure, or want to measure, the efficaciousness of outcomes. I'm a grant writing consultant who works primarily…
on “The Charitable-Industrial Complex” ↗