Friday, September 05, 2014

Philanthropic “Fad Diets” are Ultimately Bad for the Sector - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

Philanthropic “Fad Diets” are Ultimately Bad for the Sector - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

There is nothing like an all-consuming philanthropic fad to whileaway the time, attention, energy, and treasure of struggling nonprofits.At NPQ, we really try to avoid inviting you into these vacuums of
spirit, but when an elite grouping of philanthropoids gets ahold of anew focus of obsession, look out, because too often they do not like toenjoy it quietly at home.

Here is the rant of Vu Le, a nonprofit-management startup director with a blog called Nonprofit with Balls. He assures us that he has nothing at all against innovation, but…


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