The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.

People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.

You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are

We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.