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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• 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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• No one has ever become poor by giving.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Morning, Kindness

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.

  Alan Lightman

  Running, Teaching, Organization

  ""Mr g," by Alan Lightman". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Book, Ministry, Corporations

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• Mac [Barnett ] and I have been friends for more than ten years. We met working at an educational nonprofit. And we have been pranking each other the whole time. It's our own version of a prank war. We thought we would channel some of that energy into writing a book.

  Jory John

  War, Educational, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Nimble, Environment, Fluid

  "The Dynamics of Change — A New Vision for a New Girl Scouting Century" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.

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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

  Organization, Two, Causes

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