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A great read, especially for someone new to the sector. Saved quotes: 'The leaders of the organization were shielded from criticism because, like other nonprofit organizations, they could behind a noble mission. It's as if questioning the soundness of their planning is in effect questioning their integrity, their purpose, and the need of their constituents.' (50) 'Experts in social policy call this the 'law of unintended consequences.'
I call it 'good intentions gone bad.' Just because you're doin A great read, especially for someone new to the sector. Saved quotes: 'The leaders of the organization were shielded from criticism because, like other nonprofit organizations, they could behind a noble mission. It's as if questioning the soundness of their planning is in effect questioning their integrity, their purpose, and the need of their constituents.'
(50) 'Experts in social policy call this the 'law of unintended consequences.' I call it 'good intentions gone bad.'
Just because you're doing 'good' doesn't excuse you from doing things smart, or doing things good.' (53) 'We run into serious problems when people start to confuse random acts of kindness with a social strategy. Simply put, our neighborhoods, our communities, even our nonprofit infrastructures, have grown too complex to rely on starfish throwers. What you end up with is too much or not enough.' (70) 'No matter what role you play in the sector, whether you're a donor, a volunteer, an executive director, or a fundraiser, you can't contribute to any real impact in helping others with random acts. Be a starfish thrower in you spare time, but don't turn your nonprofit or business into one.
You have to be smart and organized to win this war. You have to have long-term planning, long-term action, and the ability ot mobilize the idea of starfish throwers into machines of social change.' (80) 'As students of charity, whether we're young or old, we need to understand that the best thing we can do to help a child in need is not to give that child another meal or tutor, but to pay that child's parents a living wage. We need to stop thinking we have to drive to the 'other side of town' to help 'inner city kids,' or go out at night serving meals on the street. That's addressing the symptom, not the disease of poverty.
We need to look at the people right next to us to see how they need our help.' (107) Regarding Gen Y: 'They are the new American fighters, a ragtag army of true believers that we've been arming for the last decade and they itch for a fight. They are poised for greatness, if some of us would just get out of the way and some of us just show them the way.' (152) 'Someone once said that a good leader doesn't create more followers. Good leaders create more leaders. I say amen to that.' (153) 'I'd like to urge any CEO or director of a company who wants to help a person in need to start with your own people - your employees.
Make sure they're taken care of and then work your way out in concentric circles, your neighborhood, your community, your city and state. Don't donate your time to the inner city if your own employees aren't making a living wage. Spend more time figuring out how to pay them better and provide more benefits, rather than constructing a golden parachute for your fellow executives. As the saying goes, if we all do with a little less, we all get a little more.'
Robert Egger is a nonprofit entrepreneur, who thinks big and isn’t afraid to try out new ideas. He founded DC’s Central Kitchen, a hunger-fighting initiative that not only feeds the homeless with donated food, but provides job training and life coaching to its clients, who graduate into kitchens all over the area and gain a steady paycheck. His qualifications are stellar, and his advice for nonprofits isn’t bad. Run your org like, well, a business.
Serve your cause first and foremost – don’t be a Robert Egger is a nonprofit entrepreneur, who thinks big and isn’t afraid to try out new ideas. He founded DC’s Central Kitchen, a hunger-fighting initiative that not only feeds the homeless with donated food, but provides job training and life coaching to its clients, who graduate into kitchens all over the area and gain a steady paycheck.
His qualifications are stellar, and his advice for nonprofits isn’t bad. Run your org like, well, a business. Serve your cause first and foremost – don’t be afraid to innovate. Eggers, a former nightclub manager, believes nonprofits should be held to the same exacting (if ruthless) standards that small businesses are held to. The free market exerts quality controls on private enterprise that are sorely lacking in the nonprofit world, and nonprofits (and the people they are trying to help) suffer as a result.
As a result, there are too many nonprofits out there, and many should merge in order to more effectively serve their clientele – or should be eliminated entirely. Eggers is rightly harsh on entrenched nonprofit leadership; managers who sit on the same boards for decades, while eschewing change and drawing outsized salaries. Unfortunately, the book is slim on solutions. The problems in the nonprofit world are many, as Eggers points out. The changes will have to be sweeping; they must affect every level of organization in the nonprofit sector as well as the for-profit sector. Government policy has to change. Americans’ attitude towards charitable giving must change.
Corporations have to incorporate a new sense of purpose into their mission statements. Yet Eggers’ answer to this widespread dysfunction seems to have been to write a book. There are no calls for transforming organizations, no calls for new governmental policy to deal with the problems. Instead, Eggers has written a book that markets itself very much to individual nonprofit managers. The book is sprinkled with tips for nonprofit directors to increase the efficiency of their organization (and in fact, these are collected in the back), recommendations for for-profit institutions to increase their corporate social responsiblity, and this slap-dash approach seems, for Eggers, to be good enough. One of the most appealing aspects of Eggers’ book is his righteous disdain for the “starfish” story.
You’ve heard the starfish story, if you’ve ever spent any time in the nonprofit or philanthropic world. The man finds a young boy throwing washed-up starfish, one or two at a time, back into the ocean, and asks him what he’s doing. “Don’t you know you can’t possibly save all the thousands and thousands of starfish who have washed up on the beach? What difference can you possibly make?” The boy throws another starfish in the ocean and says, “I’ve made a difference to that one!” Nonprofits, Eggers argues, should not be in the business of being starfish throwers.
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Nonprofits must aim higher than saving some, not all. Nonprofits must work for systemic change, rather than hand out bandaids. Eggers lays out a grandiose agenda for everyone involved in social work, from government, to the public, to corporations. You must not be content with throwing starfish. “Throw starfish in your spare time,” says Eggers. In nonprofit work, you must aim big.
Why, then, is Eggers throwing starfish with this book? Why is he asking individual nonprofits to make changes, instead of demanding change at a higher level, say, change at foundations that make grants and organizations like the United Way that channel funds to smaller nonprofits? Why does he demurely say he doesn’t want bigger government, when what he’s asking for – more regulation, less exploitation of workers, less of the social system that creates the need for organizations like his in the first place – relies on a government that is active, involved, and interventionist in the economy?
Why does he ask CEOs to pay their workers a higher wage, instead of demanding regulation that would make it so that no worker ever has to go to a food bank for a meal again? I’m disappointed, but not surprised, by Eggers’ timidity. Nowhere in the book does Eggers discuss the fact that the free market approach to nonprofit management he admires so much is the same logic that is ultimately responsible for creating the societal inequalities he wants so badly to combat. Hunger is created when you pay your menial workers minimum wage; you pay your workers minimum wage because the free market forces you to compete. The solution, Eggers seems to suggest, is to simply choose to pay your workers more. Nowhere does Eggers suggest the problem might lie with the national race to the bottom in wages that such unfettered capitalism fosters. On the one hand, Eggers praises the free market, on the other, he insists that corporations “do the right thing” out of the goodness of their hearts.
The book would have been stronger if there was a firmer examination of what our free market ethos has done to our society. Eggers would probably accuse me of fatalism.
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He strongly denounces the “blame society” crowd – people (like me) who believe that the system is ultimately stacked against the clients of DC’s Central Kitchen. After someone graduates from the kitchen and finds a job in a restaurant, what then? What is waiting for someone who can serve as a line cook? A low-wage job in a low-wage industry, lacking in benefits, lacking in worker protection, often lacking in the basic stability of steady hours. To Eggers, this sort of analysis is pointless. It denies the agency of the individuals who use Central Kitchen’s services to move up through life. It is insulting to them, as it takes away from their accomplishments.
But Eggers does not explain why this is so. We are to think systemically – remember, Eggers’ edict about the starfish – without thinking too broadly about social problems, so as not to become hopelessly pessimistic. But in failing to critique free market capitalism, Eggers throws starfish. He praises nonprofits that work within the lines of what is acceptable in free market capitalism, nonprofits that tweak the system without altering it too greatly, and deems this work good enough. The changes that are needed to truly end hunger and poverty and the other great ills of modern society are hinted at, but not truly engaged with. If Eggers had done this, Begging for Change would have been a truly great book.
I heard Robert Eggers speak a couple of years ago at a nonprofit event and loved his dynamic perspective on the nonprofit sector and call to re-think how we do business. Eggers founded D.C. Central Kitchen and rebuilt the national capital chapter of the United Way following a major scandal. In Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All, Eggers asks nonprofit workers to consider how we can collaborate to tackle the problems facing ou I heard Robert Eggers speak a couple of years ago at a nonprofit event and loved his dynamic perspective on the nonprofit sector and call to re-think how we do business.
Eggers founded D.C. Central Kitchen and rebuilt the national capital chapter of the United Way following a major scandal. In Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All, Eggers asks nonprofit workers to consider how we can collaborate to tackle the problems facing our society, while junking outdated and hurtful operating models. Many of the assumptions we have about nonprofit work, keep our sector trapped in inefficiency, parochialism and turf wars. Eggers argues that nonprofit organizations are making serious mistakes in how they approach their business models and that the do good sector is long overdue for a major overhaul. Too many nonprofits overpay their top executives, duplicate each other’s services, compete again.st each other for a shrinking resource pie, fail to work together to tackle broad problems, and don’t properly evaluate their programs and services.
Rather, Eggers notes the danger of nonprofits relying on old funding models, replicating each other’s services, and using outdated stereotypes for their communications and marketing. He worries that too many organizations ask donors to believe they are doing good, while not explaining how they are impacting key social problems. He asks nonprofit workers to embrace change and innovate the field through partnership and restructuring operations. His call for change includes nonprofit communications, where Eggers thinks nonprofits should focus more on explaining how they are addressing key social issues and less time on flinging around statistics.
He takes issue with a public service campaign by the Ad Council with America’s Second Harvest, which used images of a young girl to help Americans consider how many people in this country must choose between paying for food and paying for heat or electricity or gas for a car to get to work. Eggers argues that while the campaign raises the issue, it stops there. He feels that we can’t change someone’s mind by only quoting a number or dropping a moral platitude. Rather, we should offer a solution for the problem too, because the public already knows that there is a problem.
Furthermore, Eggers points out that children remain at the top of the caste pinnacle of needy people publicized by nonprofits when raising money, we often ignore what he calls the “big uglies” – the drug addicts, adult homeless people, or prisoners. Many of the people who are homeless or battling addictions today are the children of prior decades that were never saved.
Nonprofit communicators, program leaders, and development staff will find plenty to ponder in the book and its call for change. Donors, nonprofit board members and volunteers will also find that the book inspires them to ask harder questions about what their money and time are supporting. When checking out Robert Eggers’ blog, I found this thoughtful quote: “Too often, charity is based on the redemption of the giver, not the liberation of the receiver.” It begs a few questions – what end result is your nonprofit seeking? To make donors feel good? Or to solve social problems? And do the two have to be mutually exclusive?
I originally published this on my blog. Are you are a non-profit organization? Do you have a great interest in volunteering for your community or donating cash or other items to charities dear to your heart?
Regardless of your interest in non-profit organizations, I think you will find this book about The Kitchen, a non-profit organization, very beneficial. Not only does the author talk about his own charity but he talks about the salary of other non-profits and what they are or should be making. This book details all the things that Are you are a non-profit organization? Do you have a great interest in volunteering for your community or donating cash or other items to charities dear to your heart? Regardless of your interest in non-profit organizations, I think you will find this book about The Kitchen, a non-profit organization, very beneficial. Not only does the author talk about his own charity but he talks about the salary of other non-profits and what they are or should be making.
This book details all the things that are currently wrong with charities and what we as individuals can do alone and with a team to change that. This book was beneficial for me as a person who aspires to one day open a non-profit business without the government's assistance as well as a person who enjoys donating to others in need. I found a lot of really great information contained in this book. One of the things the author recommends is for you to research a non-profit prior to donating to see where your money is actually being used and if it is truly being used for what you want it to be used for. He also recommends that rather than donating to a bunch of different non-profits, you should select just one. While some of you may agree with that suggestion, I personally do not. I feel better knowing that my money is going to different organizations of different needs at different times.
Even if it is only a little bit at a time. That way I feel like I am helping others in situations that are important to me, that I would like to see changed for the better. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, Robert Egger takes a good hard look at non-profits serving the poor in Washington DC.
He adds his background in the hospitality business to the analysis and this makes the book excellent reading. For those of us who have a desire to serve the poor, as well as bring others along on that journey, this book can serve as a reflecting point as to how we've done this work for some time. Egger asks 'Who are we serving' in a few different ways, this is a question that needs to be asked and answered regu Robert Egger takes a good hard look at non-profits serving the poor in Washington DC. He adds his background in the hospitality business to the analysis and this makes the book excellent reading. For those of us who have a desire to serve the poor, as well as bring others along on that journey, this book can serve as a reflecting point as to how we've done this work for some time. Egger asks 'Who are we serving' in a few different ways, this is a question that needs to be asked and answered regularly as we move through our various outreaches to the poor.
Too often the answer is strikingly, not the poor. Robert Egger is like the Gordan Ramsay of the non-profit world (a little bit ironic, since he is director of the DC Central Kitchen). He exposes practices that are inefficient & worthless in the non-profit sector, and brings in simple yet fresh ideas.
Begging For Change Pdf
I am going to DCCK tomorrow at 7:45 in the morning to learn more about all their happenings, drive around in their refrigerated truck and go vote (not really related to the first two). It is difficult at this point to think of three better reas Robert Egger is like the Gordan Ramsay of the non-profit world (a little bit ironic, since he is director of the DC Central Kitchen). He exposes practices that are inefficient & worthless in the non-profit sector, and brings in simple yet fresh ideas.
I am going to DCCK tomorrow at 7:45 in the morning to learn more about all their happenings, drive around in their refrigerated truck and go vote (not really related to the first two). It is difficult at this point to think of three better reasons to get out of bed at this insane hour:-).
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