Have a great day! Hi! What can I do for you today sir? Hi, my name is John. I appreciate what you do for this neighborhood. Your pizza is making a difference! Well thank you John. You know, when we opened we were just a small shop with a simple mission to... Right. Right. Listen. I represent a large
institution and we're interested in buying a significant number of your
pizzas. Oh! Okay great, well our cheese pizzas are ten dollars...
John: Great, I've done some number crunching and determined t
hat we're gonna need ten
per month and I can pay... eight dollars per pie. Oh and I'll need them to be Sicilian. Oh, but the Sicilian pies are more expensive. That won't cover my costs. Oh I'm sure you can just find someone who will be willing to make up the
difference. Who? Well maybe do a couple black-tie
events, you know, honor some people. I'm concerned about the impact on quality at that price and, you know, my reputation is at stake. Of course but just imagine how
much more efficient you w
ould be with twenty percent less than what you should
be given. But I mean I'm sure there's plenty of other pizza places around here...I mean...if it's too much work... It's ok. You know what, I've got an oven that's been on the fritz and maybe the steady business will help
pay for repairs. Oooh I would LOVE to help with that but... 100 percent of what we give to you must be spent on ingredients... Okay, we do not pay for overhead. Okay?
See none of this money can be used for: Utilities, rent, m
arketing, pizza boxes, or
your salary. Especially not your salary...no no. No pizza boxes? And how am I supposed
to deliver them? Oh, well there's a place in Bushwick that is completely sustainable. They deliver your pizza using solar-powered drones on recycled recycle bins. I don't have those. Okay. You can spend 5% on pizza boxes, 10% on
dough, 5% on tomatoes, 10% on cheese, and the rest on spices. See. It's all spelled
out here in this pizza making plan. I'm the one who knows how to make the
pizzas! Yeah. No, of course. Of course. What you want to do is just fill out this
paperwork, okay? You make any of the stipulated adjustments to your business
model and then after a few site visits and several audits, payment should start
rolling in about six to nine months... A site visit? Yeah. As you see here on page 47 mmkay? Your chef will either have to have been
nominated for a James Beard Award, competed on Iron Chef, or taken anger
management classes from Gordon Ramsay. I serve pizzas.
A James Beard Award? Most of my cooks can't even grow a beard! Hi! Oh hey. Uh... Where did that other guy go that was just here? Oh...he got transferred to a different department. I'll be making the orders now. Oh, thank god. Yeah, I know. I'm sorry. His expectations
are a bit...unreasonable. You're telling me! You saw. I know right! So I would like four dozen falafel sandwiches. Oh, we don't make falafel sandwiches. Well that's what we need. And I also need you to track each and every one of yo
ur expenses on this
ancient scroll. Use the feather pen. It has the blue ink. Nice to meet you! And really, you are making a difference. With each falafel sandwich. That's bullsh*t. You don't have to put up with that. You and other pizza places are
providing a valuable service to our community and we should be backing you
up and not making you jump through hoops. Listen. I would like to order a large
supreme pizza. And someone told me that you have an oven on the fritz so here is $100 to go towa
rds fixing that. Oh thank you! Thank you so much! I hope you come back! No. No. No. Absolutely not. I only buy pizza from the same pizza place once because otherwise I keep coming back, you get
dependent on me, and that would be bullsh*t so... Oh. Okay.
Comments
This was great. Truth of the challenges with humor. Thank you.
The way we fund public and nonprofit organizations needs to change! Great video!
I've worked in the nonprofit world for 25 years and have a love/hate relationship with the industry. This video showed some highlights of the "hate" part of the nonprofit world. This industry does indeed need fixing. Great video!
Outstanding. It really shows just how hard it is to get the resources to actually help thier community.
Wonderful! thank you for another perspective on the pain of fundraising for a mission!
I run a private for-profit company in Liberia, West Africa. We grow, process and sell rice grown by local farmers. We have been supported by a couple of donors to “do more, better, faster, for more small holder farmers, over larger areas, and etc.” This lady in the video is me. OMG!
So well done! Great way to get across important, hard-to-explain topics in an accessible way. Brilliant.
Love this! It describes the situation for community non-profits so perfectly. Hopefully the metaphor works for waking us up to the ridiculous way we fund social care.
Truth! Thank you for creating this fun video to bring awareness!
I JUST LOVE THE DONOR/SUPPORTER PART AT THE END! This couldn't be more transferable as a comparison of what we are expected to do with the developmentally disabled funding we receive...
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Thankfully, I don't quite deal with this, but helping run arts non-profits, writing LOIs, and trying to get people to put their money where their mouths are is extremely frustrating!
This is painfully accurate...
Finally, even towards the end when it’s all peaches…. You get let down.
I spent most of my working career in the non-profit sector doing grant writing and this is SO true, and TOO funny!
"especially not your salary"
Hilarious, but good story telling there!
I heard from RIP Medical Debt CEO, Allison Sesso, who talked on the podcast of "Dr. Glaucomflecken" here on YouTube and this video is as brilliant as she implied! Goodness me! :'3
Everyone deserves a fair slice.
Bravo, well done!
Brilliant!!