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Tag Name "Philanthropy" (325)

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There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations to play a role in their social welfare. It's become easy for some companies to profit from citizen goodwill and volunteerism.
Ravida Din
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Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.
Ann Landers
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We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.
William J. Clinton
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It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
Albert Einstein
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare
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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth
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Give all thou canst high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.
William Wordsworth
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There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.
Woodrow Wilson
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
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In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
Samuel Johnson
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If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
Barbara Jordan
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Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.
Les Wexner
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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
Charles Lamb
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We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.
Simon Mainwaring
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The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays ... philanthropy begs.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Henry Ford
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational in philanthropy. But I hope at some point to target two or three causes or organizations and really make transformational gifts.
David Rubenstein
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.
Chuck Feeney
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