Wanting Charities to Act Like Business Is Disingenuous

Telling charities to act more like business is disingenuous and cruel because society is not ready to grant them the big-league freedoms business enjoys; the correct framing is that we put the cart before the horse—we should first give charities permission to act like business (and we absolutely should) rather than preach businesslike behavior while denying them the means, since board members who say 'run it more like a business' usually mean drawing more blood from the stone, the opposite of how a business succeeds.