Dan Pallotta

Dan Pallotta is the author of Uncharitable and founder of Pallotta TeamWorks, the US fundraising agency which invented the multiday AIDSRides and Breast Cancer 3-Days events in which 182,000 people participated in nine years.  They raised over half a billion dollars and netted $305m - more money raised more quickly for these causes than any private event operation in history.

The company had 350 full-time employees in 16 US offices, was the winner of Brandweek’s Best Cause-Related Event Award, and was the subject of a Harvard Business School case study.

Pallotta was an undergraduate at Harvard in 1983 where he chaired the Hunger Action Committee and recruited 38 of his classmates to join him in bicycling 4,200 miles across America to raise money for Oxfam and to heighten awareness of the plight of the hungry.

His book Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential, is a number 1 bestseller in the charity category on Amazon. It is nominated for the McAdam Book Award, and has been reviewed and acclaimed by the New York Times, The Economist, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review, among others. He is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review online where he writes about transforming the nonprofit paradigm. He is also the author of When Your Moment Comes: A Guide to Fulfilling Your Dreams.

Pallotta is a recipient of the Liberty Hill Foundation Creative Vision award, the Triangle Humanitarian of the Year award, and the Albany State University International Citizen of the Year award. He is a William J. Clinton distinguished lecturer. 

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