Philanthropy “The charitable sector is a bit like the Wild West — by design” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 June 2015 The charitable sector is a bit like the Wild West — by design. Foundations...
Non-Profits “…and you’ve just put the nonprofit sector at an extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 May 2015 …you can’t use money to lure talent away from the for-profit sector, you can’t...
Non-Profits, Philanthropy “We are not a fundraising organization. We are a forward thinking, problem-solving organization that raises funds to support our mission and our work” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 March 2015 Many Federations identify themselves as fundraising organizations and judge their successes by the size...
Philanthropy “…how could one sector possibly take market share away from another sector if it isn’t really allowed to market?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 February 2015 …we tell the for-profit sector, “Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar...
Fundraising “…if a nonprofit organization ever had a dream of building magnificent scale that required that for six years,…we would expect a crucifixion” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 January 2015 Amazon went for six years without returning any profit to investors, and people had...
Fundraising “…we should be investing more money, not less, in fundraising, because fundraising is the one thing that has the potential to multiply the amount of money available for the cause that we care about so deeply” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 January 2015 …this one very dangerous question, which is, “What percentage of my donation goes to...
Fundraising “Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, “We kept charity overhead low.” We want it to read that we changed the world…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 January 2015 This is what happens when we confuse morality with frugality. We’ve all been taught...
Business, Fundraising “…the nonprofit sector is starved for growth and risk and idea capital” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 January 2015 …the for-profit sector can pay people profits in order to attract their capital for...
Business, Money “…there’s no way you’re going to get a lot of people with $400,000 talent to make a $316,000 sacrifice every year to become the CEO of a hunger charity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 January 2015 …what we don’t realize is that this system has a powerful side effect, which...
Entertainment, Ideas “Be very careful with the students that are sent to the office because one day you will have to go see them in their office” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 December 2014 “My father, of blessed memory, was an educator, and he told me to be...