Like just about everyone else in our industry, I stood up and cheered when I saw Dan Pallotta's recent TED Talk The way we think about charity is dead wrong. I've watched again and again as effective organizations capped the amount of good they could do by under-spending on fundraising and other forms of investment. They do that because watchdogs, boards, and many others sustain a belief that spending on "overhead" is bad, wasteful, and undesirable. The question is, what should we as fundraisers do about this, especially now that the issue is more in the open?

http://www.futurefundraisingnow.com/future-fundraising/2013/06/what-to-do-about-overhead.html