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Busting the Overhead Myth

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

If an organization budgets for a small surplus each fiscal year, they are creating enough financial cushion to be able to invest in new and innovative operations that could boost their social impact. As Dan Pallotta highlighted in 2008, nonprofits that invest adequately in infrastructure achieve greater effectiveness.

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The Nonprofit Sector and Social Change: A Conversation between Cyndi Suarez and Claire Dunning

NonProfit Quarterly

But I always had a sense of those organizations when I worked there, an internal critique of what kind of social change were we really bringing about. And why did we rely on private ones to solve what felt like public problems? Why was the nonprofit sector doing this? It was just so amazing to read it. Really important.