Dan Pallotta

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dan Pallotta
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Jan 21, 1961(1961-01-21)
Age	63
Birthplace	Malden
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Capricorn

Dan Pallotta Biography

Dan Pallotta is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on January 21, 1961 in Malden, Massachusetts, United States. Daniel M. “Dan” Pallotta (born on January 21, 1961) is an American author, entrepreneur and activist for human rights. He is most well-known for his participation in multi-day charity events such as the three-day long-distance Breast Cancer walk, AIDS Rides bicycle journeys as well as Out of the Darkness suicide night walks for prevention. Over the course of nine years, 182,000 people took part during these walks and generated $582 million. They were the topic of an Harvard Business School case study. Author of Uncharitable The Ways in which Restrictions on Nonprofits Limit their potential, the most-sold book in the history of Tufts University Press. Also, he is the creator of Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community can stand up for itself and genuinely change the world and When Your Moment is Here – A Guide to Realizing Your Dreams. He is head of Advertising for Humanity and president and chairman of the Charity Defense Council. He is a regular author for Harvard Business Review online.

Pallotta is a native of Malden, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston and was the eldest child of 4. He was a student at Harvard University and graduated cum the year 1983.

Pallotta was aware that there was “nothing big” for the average person to do about AIDS. It was the same feeling of frustration he had at Harvard looking at the gap between world hunger and the small fundraising events designed to address it. In 1991, building on the ‘power of the journey’ as a metaphor, he conceived of a 600-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, which combined his marketing, fundraising, mobilizing and motivating skills. Three years later, the movie Alive motivated him to realize his idea. He brought his plan for the event to the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Community Services Center, which was looking for a new signature event. The Center put up an initial investment of $50,000 in risk capital, which was enough for the effort to survive until a sponsorship was secured from Tanqueray for an additional $110,000. 478 people participated in the first California AIDS Ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, netting $1,013,000 – much more than expected.

In 1992, after a serious bout of Hepatitis A which he believed was HIV at the time, Pallotta decided to seek counseling and entered a 12-step program known as SLAA (Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous) to deal with addictive behavioral patterns that he felt were undermining his potential. His first book, When Your Moment Comes, details these years in Pallotta’s life.

The summer before her senior year in Harvard He saw two cyclists cross America to raise funds to fund cancer research. The experience inspired him to start an all-day bike ride to help people suffering from hunger in the world. The co-chair and he, Mark Takano (now a Congressman from the 41st district in California) invited 39 students to take part in the trip. The summer of 1983 they covered 4,256 miles of an mainly northern route during 9 1/2 weeks , from Seattle until Boston. It was the first time they crossed the Continental Divide at 9,658ft on Togwotee Pass, located in the Absaroka Mountains of the United States, between the towns of Dubois and Moran Junction, Wyoming. The event generated around $80,000 for Oxfam America. Pallotta was featured on television as well as radio throughout this event and even made an appearance in the studio together with Bryant Gumbel on the Today show.

Dan Pallotta Net Worth

Dan Pallotta is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dan Pallotta 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the first weekend of Pallotta’s stay at Harvard He took part in a human consciousness class named”the Erhard Seminars Training, created by Werner Erhard. The emphasis of the training of making an impression goal-setting, and human comprehension will play an important influence later on in the creation of the events that took place over several days Pallotta and his company developed. In 1980, while chair of the Harvard Hunger Action Committee, Pallotta arranged a talk for the singer-songwriter John Denver (who had served on the President’s Commission on World Hunger). At Denver’s request, Pallotta attended the singer’s Windstar Foundation Program for college students in Snowmass, Colorado the next summer. The focus of the program was on the issue of global sustainability. Pallotta along with his 20 fellow classmates were able to sleep in teepees during the Rockies and were served macrobiotic meals and lectures from philosopher and mathematician Buckminster Fuller.

At 19 years old, Pallotta came in second place in a field comprised of twelve candidates. She became the youngest person ever elected by the Melrose school board. home town in Melrose, Massachusetts. The board was inaugurated in January 1981, which was the same date Proposition 2 1/2 became effective that restricted the increase in property taxes by Massachusetts municipalities to not greater than 2.5 per year.

In 1985 Pallotta moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a singer and songwriter. He was auditioned by Clive Davis and had a single recorded by Edgar Winter and sang the national anthem at Anaheim Stadium for the Los Angeles Rams. During his time in Los Angeles he also met David Mixner, a leading civil rights activists, and went to work on Mixner’s Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament, envisioned as a 5,000-person march across America to promote nuclear disarmament. He also met and worked with Irving Warner, author of Bantam Books’ The Art of Fundraising, who mentored him in the field of major gift fundraising.

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In 1998 Pallotta conceived the idea of a three-day, 75-mile walk for breast cancer. After scouting the route with three other staff, it was decided that 75 miles was too long, and the event was shortened to 60 miles and called the “Breast Cancer 3-Day.” In 1997 Pallotta brought the idea to Joanne Mazurki, the head of the Avon Cosmetics company’s Breast Cancer Crusade. She brought it to Jim Preston, Avon’s CEO, who signed off on the launch of the first event, which would take place in 1998 and travel from Santa Barbara to Malibu. The event was four times as successful as the first AIDS Ride, netting $4.2 million. With capital from Avon, the events were expanded to four cities in 1999, seven cities in 2000, nine cities in 2001 and thirteen cities in 2002. In five years the events netted $194 million in unrestricted dollars for the breast cancer community — more money raised more quickly for the breast cancer cause than any event in history.

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In 1999, after studying the issue of suicide, Pallotta realized that mortality rates from suicide approached those of breast cancer in the United States, and that suicide attempts dwarfed breast cancer diagnoses. He created an event called “Out of the Darkness” — a 26-mile walk through the night designed to bring the issue of suicide into the light. The event put suicide prevention at the table with the mega-causes, netting $1.3 million in its first year.

What is the main message of Dan Pallotta's TED talk?

Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for how little they spend — not for what they get done.

What advice does Dan Pallotta give when making donations?

“We tell for-profits to spend, spend, spend on advertising,” says Pallotta, but nonprofits are expected not to advertise — unless the advertising space and airtime is donated. People want to see their money spent directly on the needy.

Is Dressember a good charity?

Dressember Foundation has earned a passing score. The organization provided data about how it listens to constituents (Constituent Feedback) and its Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) practices (see report below).

What do for profit organizations do?

A for-profit organization is one that operates with the goal of making money. Most businesses are for-profits that serve their customers by selling a product or service. The business owner earns an income from the for-profit and may also pay shareholders and investors from the profits.

Why is mission creep such a threat to nonprofits?

The Impact of Mission Creep on Nonprofits When an organization expands its programming beyond capacity, they risk diluting existing resources. In other words, organizations cannot fully support the programs that fall within scope of their intended mission.