November 13, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
The White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation is failing to harness its true potential by simply supporting successful nonprofit groups, says Dan Pallotta, author of Uncharitable.
“Maybe I’m missing something, but isn’t giving money to innovative organizations what hundreds of foundations try to do every year? Using the power of the White House for this purpose is like using Steve Jobs to write code,” he writes on his blog for the Harvard Business School.
Instead, he suggests six ways the new office could really push the envelope in the nonprofit world.
They include requiring foundations to provide 50 percent of their grant in operating support to charities, create a new quasi-public organization to regulate nonprofit groups, and allowing investors in for-profit groups that have a social mission to receive a tax deduction.
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