With Charity For All
  • Published: 15 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9780307743817
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $34.00

With Charity For All

Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give

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Based on his experiences at NPR and other major nonprofits, Ken Stern exposes the flaw in the United States' charity model--organizations that raise millions of dollars without ever cracking the problem they set out to solve--and offers an inspiring prescription for individual giving and widespread reform.

Each year, the average American household donates almost $2700 to charity.  Yet, most donors know little about the American charitable sector and the nonprofit organizations they support.  In With Charity For All, former NPR CEO Ken Stern exposes a field that few know: 1.1 million organizations, 10% of the national workforce, and $1.5 trillion in annual revenues.  He chronicles the many flaws in the charity system, from tax-exempt charities such as bowl games,  roller derby leagues, and beer festivals, to charitable hospitals that pay their executives into the millions, to--worst of all--organizations that raise millions of dollars without ever cracking the problem they have pledged to solve.
 
With Charity For All provides an unflinching look at the philathropic sector but also offers an inspiring prescription for individual giving and widespread reform.
  • Published: 15 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9780307743817
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $34.00
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Praise for With Charity For All

  • "Smart and scathing."--Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist and co-author of Half the Sky
  • "Stern makes a strong case that the average American donor has become a sucker.... A good guide to what makes an effective charity." --Los Angeles Times
  • "Eye-opening.... Stern is calling for donors to ... rethink the way they give in order to be the impetus for change." --The Washington Post
  • "[With Charity for All is] more exasperated than mean, more provocative than shrill, and counterintuitive instead of purveying stale conventional wisdom. Stern's advice is consequential, because if followed it will alter the charitable realm." --USA Today
  • "[A] provocative exposé.... For anyone who has given time or money to not-for-profits, Stern's critique will prove both disturbing and thought-provoking." --Publishers Weekly