full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, "We kept craihty overhead low."

(Laughter)

(Applause)

We want it to read that we changed the world, and that part of the way we did that was by changing the way we think about these things.

So the next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the sclae of their dreams, their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams, how they msraeue their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is. Who cares what the oheraved is if these problems are actually getting solved?

Open Cloze


Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, "We kept _______ overhead low."

(Laughter)

(Applause)

We want it to read that we changed the world, and that part of the way we did that was by changing the way we think about these things.

So the next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the _____ of their dreams, their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams, how they _______ their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is. Who cares what the ________ is if these problems are actually getting solved?

Solution


  1. charity
  2. overhead
  3. scale
  4. measure

Original Text


Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, "We kept charity overhead low."

(Laughter)

(Applause)

We want it to read that we changed the world, and that part of the way we did that was by changing the way we think about these things.

So the next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams, their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams, how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is. Who cares what the overhead is if these problems are actually getting solved?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
million dollars 8
nonprofit sector 7
breast cancer 7
social problems 3
charitable giving 3
bake sale 3
billion dollars 3
social innovation 2
real social 2
social business 2
remained stuck 2
visceral reaction 2
market share 2
kill innovation 2
initial investment 2
risk capital 2
cancer research 2
percent overhead 2
professional fundraising 2
fundraising enterprise 2
human services 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
breast cancer research 2
professional fundraising enterprise 2

Important Words


  1. applause
  2. cares
  3. changed
  4. changing
  5. charity
  6. dreams
  7. epitaph
  8. generation
  9. laughter
  10. measure
  11. overhead
  12. part
  13. problems
  14. progress
  15. rate
  16. read
  17. resources
  18. scale
  19. solved
  20. time
  21. true
  22. world