Financing Not Fundraising: 5 Taboos Nonprofits Must Get Over

Nonprofit taboos are so insidious because they are unwritten and unquestioned. But that has to stop. If we want to move the nonprofit sector forward, we must uncover certain taboos and determine whether they are really unacceptable anymore. Here are the five most egregious taboos in the nonprofit sector: Nonprofits shouldn't … raise a surplus, pay market-rate salaries, demand board members fundraise, question donors and invest in fundraising.