Project Reason Trustees / Advisory Board

Dan Pallotta

Dan Pallotta is a leading expert on innovation in the nonprofit sector and a pioneering social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Pallotta TeamWorks, which invented the multiday AIDSRides and Breast Cancer 3-Days. 182,000 people participated in these events, which raised over half a billion dollars and netted $305 million in nine years - more money raised more quickly for these causes than any private event operation in history. Mr. Pallotta is the author of Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential. He is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review online where he writes about current nonprofit sector issues. He is a William J. Clinton Distinguished Lecturer, and has spoken at Wharton, Harvard Business School, Harvard’s Hauser Center for Nonprofits, Tufts University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Milken Institute, among others. Mr. Pallotta has been written about in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, American Public Media’s Marketplace, and on numerous NPR stations, among others.