Static Multimedia Reviews UnCharitable

How the misperception of non-profits’ spending has caused untold damage to their ability to help those in need is chronicled by Stephen Gyllenhaal in a documentary that hopes to correct the unfair media coverage that led to congressional investigations and a massive loss of donations from a skeptical public.

Filmmaker Stephen Gyllenhaal has described his latest project UnCharitable as a movie and not a documentary in hopes that viewers can meet his feature on a cinematic level. Whatever term you want to give UnCharitable, it is a value added film about how the charitable sector continues to struggle thanks to misperception and prejudices. Gyllenhaal talked about why, even in the midst of the overwhelming problems our world faces, “hope” can be a viable solution.

Are we holding charities back by making them play by different rules? A new documentary, “UnCharitable,” makes the case that we are setting good causes up to fail. The film will be screened at the Little Theatre Tuesday and Saturday nights.

Cinema Scholars’ Glen Dower recently sat down with director Stephen Gyllenhaal to discuss his new documentary feature, Uncharitable. They talked about Stephen’s friendship and working relationship with humanitarian and activist Dan Pallotta and the message that UnCharitable is trying to deliver to the public, among other topics.

CinemAddicts reviews UnCharitable on the episode dated September 29: Flora and Son, Deliver Us, Rebel, Uncharitable, No One Will Save You, The Re-Education of Molly Singer.

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PND asked Pallotta about ‘UnCharitable,’ his years-long effort to change the prevailing view of nonprofit economics, and the challenges the sector continues to face.

Director Stephen Gyllenhaal joined Gadi Elkon for a chat about the importance of evolving and changing our current money model for charities in the country. His film UnCharitable is step one in an important journey for all of us.

10 years after his TED Talk, Dan Pallotta is back with “An Inconvenient Truth” for charities. The fundraiser and activist’s new film UnCharitable, a polemical adaptation of Pallotta’s 2008 book of the same name, once again takes aim at the so-called overhead myth, the dogma that nonprofits ought to be rewarded for minimizing their overhead costs, even for essentials like salaries, rent, or insurance.

UnCharitable might change the way you think about charities. UnCharitable, an adaptation of Dan Pallotta’s book and TED talk, lays out the case for treating charitable institutions differently than they have been, removing arbitrary handcuffs and equipping them with the kind of resources, tolerance for risk and reasonable expectations that would enable them to attract topnotch talent and truly address the problems they were created to solve.