“Uncharitable is the most courageous and necessary of all of the recent books that have been written about philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.

Dan Pallotta understands that being faithful to those that charities are designed to serve requires more than generosity and good management. It requires taking risks, confronting antiquated notions of politically correct charity, and most of all remembering that nonprofit efficiency should be a means to an end not an end in itself. Uncharitable charts a new path that if followed, could finally create the incentives needed to unleash the enormous potential of nonprofits to change the world.”

— Bill Shore
Founder & Executive Director,
Share Our Strength

“Challenging hallowed premises is difficult; challenging the foundational premises underlying our understanding of charity is even more so. Dan Pallotta has done exactly that and, in doing so, requires us all to rethink the very nature of what it means to be charitable and how charity actually functions. He liberates charity from its Puritan constraints and cogently attaches it to entrepreneurship in a way thatshould make us all take two steps back and imagine a new philosophy and theory of charity itself. This is nothing less than a revolutionary work.”

— Gary Hart
Former United States Senator
Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado

“Dan Pallotta has written the clearest and most articulate critique I have read of the system of values that our charities and other nonprofit organizations are supposed to follow. He explains in graphic detail how these values undercut what charities are trying to do and prevent them from accomplishing all that they might. Not everyone may agree with his position, but the nonprofit world will surely benefit from a vigorous discussion of his arguments.”

— Derek Bok
Former President of Harvard University

“Uncharitable poses a bold challenge to orthodoxy that drives American non-profit business practice.
In an era when civilization is challenged with unprecedented threats from disease, climate change and globalization, unleashing imaginative leadership in the creation of social good is of paramount urgency. If we are indeed going to succeed in innovating our way to a sustainable future in the 21st century, we will need to unlock the moral and creative potential of the non-profit sector, enable it to interact more comfortably and flexibly with the market, create the right incentives for the recruitment of America’s most talented social innovators, and rethink our approaches to capitalizing our best ideas and institutions. If this is heresy, we need more of it.”

—Raymond C. Offenheiser
President, Oxfam America