I’d like to share Dan Pallotta’s TED Talk from 2013 in which he argues that non-profit rules and norms that limit compensation and the amount non-profits can spend on marketing and advertising hold the sector back from achieving a scale at which it could adequately “solve large social problems.”

In our first class, we talked about the “superpower” of tax exempt status. I’m sharing this talk because it considers the limits of that superpower and the ways in which the non-profit sector’s system of ethics might hold the sector back from solving the social problems it was created to address.