Vast and largely unexamined, the world of American charities accounts for fully 10 percent of economic activity in this country, yet operates with little accountability, no real barriers to entry, and a stunning lack of evidence of effectiveness. In With Charity for All , Ken Stern reveals a problem hidden in plain sight and prescribes a whole new way for Americans to make a difference.
Each year, two thirds of American households donate to charities, with charitable revenues exceeding one trillion dollars. Yet while the mutual fund industry employs more than 150,000 people to rate and evaluate for-profit companies, nothing remotely comparable exists to monitor the nonprofit world. Instead, each individual is on his or her own, writing checks for a cause and going on faith. Ken Stern, former head of NPR and a long-time nonprofit executive, set out to investigate the vast world of U.S. charities and discovered a sector hobbled by deep structural flaws. Unlike private corporations that respond to market signals and go out of business when they fail, nonprofit organizations have a very low barrier to entry (the IRS approves 99.5 percent of applications) and once established rarely die. From water charities aimed at improving life in Africa to drug education programs run by police officers in thousands of U.S. schools, and including American charitable icons such as the Red Cross, Stern tells devastating stories of organizations that raise and spend millions of dollars without ever cracking the problems they set out to solve.
But he also discovered some good news: a growing movement toward accountability and effectiveness in the nonprofit world. With Charity for All is compulsively readable, driven in its early pages by the plight of millions of Americans donating to good causes to no good end, and in its last chapters by an inspiring prescription for individual giving and widespread reform.

With charity for all : the terrible truth of charitable failure

大手笔是怎样炼成的(套装共4册)

Stern, Ken

谢亦森

Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Random House, Incorporated

Delacorte Press

长江文艺出版社

Place of publication not identified, 2013

United States, United States of America

S.I, 2013

1, 2013

producers:
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The former head of a major nonprofit reveals the surprising failings of the charitable world--a shocking 1.4 million separate organizations that make up 10 percent of the U.S. economy. Counterintuitive, provocative, compulsively readable, With Charity for All creates a new paradigm that will transform every American's relationship to their end-of-year giving.
During his years running a major nonprofit, Kenneth Stern became aware that working for a nonprofit was like entering a looking-glass world where the marketplace incentives were utterly perverse. Far from wanting to grow and adapt its business to changing times, his board seemed most concerned with catering to eccentric donors and maintaining the status quo. The experience set him on a journey to explore the vast and unaccountable world of U.S. charities. From water charities that serve Africa to the policemen who provide drug education in public schools, from the Metropolitan Opera to...
Title Page 2
Copyright 3
Dedication 4
Contents 5
Introduction 6
One: Big Promises, Small Outcomes 21
Two: The Charitable Universe 55
Three: The Spaghetti Factory 74
Four: Money for People 104
Five: The Donors 123
Six: Million-Dollar Babies 154
Seven: Dawn of the New Charity 171
Eight: Creating an Effective Charitable Marketplace 195
Acknowledgments 209
Notes 211
About the Author 251

2025-01-15