Quotes About Philanthropy

The Wellcome Trust is a hugely important organisation, and it is vital that its fundraising continues unabated.

Camfed graduates are active in their villages using their skills and resources to improve as many lives as possible. They are teaching financial literacy to marginalized women and bringing vital health care information to rural schoolchildren. Through example, they are demonstrating the power of philanthropy.

In giving to the March of Dimes, my fans can help support vital research and programs to help babies and their families.

Philanthropic funding can play a vital role in testing and stimulating innovation that, when proven, can be implemented at scale by business or government.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

One of the big myths about philanthropy is that it's all about donating funds for a cause. I like to look at it quite differently. Philanthropy is about 'giving' - not just in monetary terms but also in non-monetary aspects, like time, ideas, or being a volunteer. Donating money is just a small part of philanthropy.

The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.

I've always been into volunteer work and charity work.

I want to do something that is not political. I want to do some fundraising, just as a volunteer.

Volunteer service is Dad's true north.

The George H. W. Bush Volunteer Generation Fund will further expand the scope and effectiveness of volunteerism.

I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.

Education is like the pooja ghar for us. We are never going to become a for-profit player in education. It will be akin to selling the pooja ghar.

Over the years, my husband and I have sent two dozen or more girls to college and helped them with whatever else they needed.

I decided very early on that the way to make a difference in my life and in other people's lives was to give them services and products that are actually for the many and not for the few.

Everything I ever had, I have shared.

I've always been a sharing person.

I don't have any children, but I can leave my land to an animal sanctuary. That is what I dream about, not bags, not shoes.

I'm basically a gift-giver.

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good.

The idea that private money can solve our problems is very dangerous. Ultimately that's charity. Charity is a lovely thing. I'll never turn it down. But charity is not a substitute for systematic justice and equality.

If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell.