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18.12.2023 - 21:05 / deadline.com
December is the most popular month for charitable giving by Americans – accounting for about a third of all donations made per year. Call it the spirit of the holidays, repeated viewings of A Christmas Carol, or a rush to get in tax-deductible gifts before the calendar year runs out.
That makes this a particularly timely moment to encounter one of this year’s Oscar-contending documentaries, UnCharitable, directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal. It argues we are applying misguided standards to charities – monitoring their overhead expenses like hawks and shaming any nonprofits that dare to spend money on staff salaries or fundraising.
“The movie is demanding that we look at it in a new way, really,” Gyllenhaal said in a recent Q&A (you can watch the conversation below). Under the existing paradigm, charitable nonprofits have learned to operate bare bones style, at the expense of solving the social problems they ostensibly are meant to address.
“UnCharitable demands that charities be freed from the traditional sackcloth-and-ashes constraints,” states the film’s logline,” so that they can truly change the world.”
Meredith Blake, who produced the film with Stephen Gyllenhaal and Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal, formerly served as EVP of corporate and community affairs at Participant, the mission-oriented media company. Earlier in her career, she founded and ran a nonprofit, where she confronted the counterproductive expectations applied to charitable organizations.
“I went into it just feeling like all things are possible and very quickly saw how you are handcuffed by being in a system that rewards really sort of small mindsets in a lot of ways,” she said during the Q&A. “How lean can we be? How restrictive can we be? Can we actually even
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