Quotes About Philanthropy

Ninety-year-old Irving Fradkin, an optometrist from Fall River, Massachusetts, who started a grass-roots scholarship fund, flanked by a dozen grateful kids among the hundreds of thousands he'd sent to college.

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one's self to their number.

The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.

so they 'donate' them

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.

I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.

Life isn't about what you gain; it's about what you give.

La tsédaka n'est pas qu'un simple principe de générosité. C'est non seulement un vrai projet messianique pour le monde, un bouleversement, mais également une règle à suivre quotidiennement, une discipline personnelle qui, comme toute chose dans notre tradition, est expliqué dans les moindres détails. Ensemble (extrait du mot de la fin, par Yeshaya Dalsace, Rabbin de la communauté Maayane Or, Nice)

a generous backer of your town's museums, schools and churches.

George Clooney

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

John Cochrane notes: "Rich people mostly give away or reinvest their wealth. It's hard to see just how this is a problem.…Look at Versailles. Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

Women give more than men; young people more than their elders; people who appear to be of the most modest means seem more generous than the affluent looking.

También en esas ocasiones, la niña escribía con asombrosa intuición, que las obras de caridad no podían mitigar la monumental injusticia.

The Isabel Allende Foundation

Al final, sólo se tiene lo que se ha dado, como decía Rodrigo, el más generoso de los hombres.

Decía que de poco sirve el conocimiento sin sabiduría, no hay sabiduría sin espiritualidad y la verdadera espiritualidad incluye siempre el servicio a los demás.

Las obras de caridad no podían mitigar la monumental injusticia.

Las sociedades más atrasadas y miserables son aquellas en las que las mujeres están sometidas. Si se ayuda a una mujer, sus hijos no se mueren de hambre, y si las familias progresan, se beneficia la aldea, pero esta verdad tan evidente es ignorada en el mundo de la filantropía, donde por cada dólar que se destina a programas de mujeres, se entregan veinte a los de hombres

Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient's point of view, that's zero.

Entrepreneurial Philanthropy is not just a philosophy or a dream. It is a promise that philanthropy is at its best when it is founded on entrepreneurial zest and agility.

The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls' exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.