Bassin: Consolidating nonprofits would eliminate competition and stifle innovation
Ian Bassin · Protect Democracy’s Ian Bassin on scaling a nonprofit across political divides | Masters of Scale · Mar 19, 2024 · at 23:27
Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, explains to Jeff Berman why the nonprofit sector requires healthy competition alongside cooperation rather than eliminating duplication.
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“At the same time, the notion that we should collapse All of the entities in the nonprofit space and just have one and no duplication. You'd eliminate competition. You'd eliminate innovation. You'd actually create a less good customer experience and less advances. You want a little bit of competition because I will tell you the truth is because we as an organization have to compete for donors. We have to compete for talent. We have to compete for media attention. We have to compete for meetings with legislators. That drives us to do better. And so the nonprofit space has to compete and it has to cooperate.”
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