Uncharitable: How restraints on nonprofits undermine their potential by Dan Pallotta
Dan Pallotta
Book reviews

Uncharitable: How restraints on nonprofits undermine their potential by Dan Pallotta

Steven Burkeman
1 June 2009
Alliance magazine

If you run major charitable events and are forced out of business because the charities you work with don’t like your methods, there are various ways of dealing with the trauma. You could seek counselling help. You could try to understand what it was about your methods that made your erstwhile partners dislike them. Or you could write a book to explain why you were right all along.

Dan Pallotta has chosen the last of these options. As I read his book, I found myself wishing he hadn’t.

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