Nonprofits Quotes

• I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.

  Cat Cora

  Fun, Heart, Voice

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• Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If not in corporate life, then perhaps in making your church great. If not there, then perhaps a nonprofit, or a community organization, or a class you teach. Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.

  James C. Collins

  Fall, Class, Organization

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• The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Real, Responsibility

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• No one has ever become poor by giving.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Morning, Kindness

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Questioning Why, Remember, Feels

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• I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Believe, Medical Insurance, Reform

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• The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

  Richard Stengel

  Museums, Numbers, Headquarters

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• That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Government, Purpose, Use

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• While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.

  Louise Slaughter

  Art, Jobs, Creating

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• The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

  Mitchell Baker

  Independent, Organization, Foundation

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? 200,000.

  Mary Landrieu

  Years, Two, House

  "Landrieu blasts Beck" by Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 29, 2010.

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• Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

  Robin Hayes

  Running, United States, Today

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• I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Organization, Artistic, Compromise

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• I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days.

  Casey Affleck

  Home, Animal, Organization

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  The Lorax (1971)

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• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Generosity, Social, Social Change

  "Do You Give in the Dark? Some Scary Philanthropic Realities" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2011.

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• The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

  John W. Gardner

  Creativity, Responsibility, Community

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• Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Mean, Thinking, Creating

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• Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Belts, Taxes

  "Gore Vidal: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 1, 2012.

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• We mustn't assume that we are going to deinvent government solely from inside the Beltway or within one or two sessions of Congress. We will do it one step at a time, in one community at a time - at the local level and through local institutions like churches, nonprofit and volunteer organizations and families.

  Jeb Bush

  Government, Organization, Two

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• In 2005, the Global Language Monitor-a nonprofit organization that does exactly what its name suggests-issued a tongue-in-cheek list of the year's most politically correct words and phrases. Top

  Kevin Dutton

  Years, Names, Organization

  Kevin Dutton (2011). “Split-Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds”, p.121, HMH

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• Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Simple, Priorities

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