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What's Wrong with This Picture? The CEP Blog Over recent years, we've heard again and again that the "boundaries" between the business and nonprofit sectors are blurring.  Typically, as in this Harvard Business School piece from more than a decade ago, this is framed as both undeniable and as a positive.  The professor interviewed for that piece proclaimed: "We'll see the stark differences between NPOs and businesses diminish, revealing a new world of integrated, rather than independent, sectors." I have written many blog posts in recent years questioning both whether this is really happening and whether perhaps some caution is warranted in embracing this "trend"– for example here and here .  My voice apparently hasn't stemmed the rhetorical tide and, increasingly, we have seen corporations pointed to as the entities that will solve our toughest social problems. This despite precious li...

Sacrifice is overrated..... VanStokkom - DoenDenkers® Deze week in FM aandacht voor Dan Pallotta's verhaal over Sacrifice is Overrated. Gelezen? Dan nu even verder over zijn standpunt dat hij al eerder heeft verkondigd en feitelijk neerkomt op het verdedigen/aanmoedigen van veel (kunnen) verdienen in de filantropische, charitatieve en/of humanitaire sector. Hij is dus van mening dat we het veelverdienen zelfs moeten bevorderen omdat die sectoren anders verstoken blijven van het beste talent van de wereld; Second, this elevation of a particular type of sacrifice — financial sacrifice — keeps us from solving more of the most urgent social problems of our time. It reinforces the notion that we should not allow people who want to make money to do it in the humanitarian sector. It denies our humanitarian organizations some of the best talent in the world. Pallotta reageert op de column van Tony Schwartz met drie punten; 1. financial sacrifice and serv...