Overhead Is Not the Issue

I need to get this off my chest. I am sick and tired of hearing about overhead. I don’t even mean in the overhead-ratio police kind of way. I mean at all. It is an irrelevant metric. It is a complete and utter distraction from the measurements that really matter.

I’ll go one step further. I don’t care if 100 percent of my donation goes to beneficiaries. Again, it’s such an irrelevant metric.

What I care about is what you are producing with my donation. Nonprofits are producers. They make things. What they make is change.