1/ After 10+ years in the nonprofit sector, I’m convinced that relying on donations is an ineffective way to scale impact. Here’s why the donation trap is a broken model:
That’s what I’m arguing, but I’d love to be wrong. I agree conventional wisdom is there are too many small nonprofits, but I don’t agree it’s that they’re better. Usually I hear people pitching small nonprofits, not big ones like the Red Cross (ppl seem skeptical of those).
-
-
Now that I think more, I wonder if conventional wisdom is that there *should* be more big good nonprofits, not that there are. I’d like that too, tho I think that’s ppl incorrectly mapping ideas from industry where big = efficient, but nonprofits don’t seem to work that way.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Big companies are often not efficient at all. They have scale, which usually is just a euphemism for market power. I agree it’s worth questioning this conventional wisdom
-
I'm not sure what companies have to do with this. All I'm saying is that I disagree conventional wisdom is that smaller nonprofits are worse. Most people I've met seem to love some small local nonprofit and be skeptical of big nonprofits.
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.