Nonprofits Quotes - Page 3

• ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of engaging in voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying and pro-illegal immigration lobbying. The Democrats' stimulus proposals could make the group - and its lesser known but even more radical ideological allies - eligible for upward of $5 billion in new public cash.

  Michelle Malkin

  Bullying, Wings, Ties

  17 Copy quote

• We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.

  Katherine Boo

  Government, Helping, Poor

  7 Copy quote

• The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.

  Bill Gates

  Charity, Information, Financial

  "Technology Means Everyone Can Be a Philanthropist" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A church is not a Fortune 500 company. It's not simply another nonprofit organization, nor is it a social club. In fact, a healthy church is unlike any organization that man has ever devised, because man didn't devise it.

  Mark Dever

  Men, Organization, Healthy

  10 Copy quote

• Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Moving, Giving, Littles

  "Don’t Give More — Give in a Way that Matters More" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• I created my foundation as a result of that and my website, and I try to shed some light on some very topical issues right now. The idea is to try to get people to become obviously more knowledgeable about the issue and try to get corporations and individuals to contribute to these nonprofit organizations.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Light, Organization, Ideas

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I started it [non for profit], I thought, I'm not smart enough to do this. I had no experience in management, no experience in administration, no experience in nonprofit; but then this phrase came into my head: I only have to be smart enough to find people who are smarter than me; I only have to be smart enough to recognize who knows more than me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Smart, People, Phrases

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as community entrepreneurship.

  Donald Bren

  Community, Collaboration, Entrepreneurship

  6 Copy quote

• Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Government, People, Crowds

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• I honor businesses for what they do, I honor nonprofits for what they do, I honor government for what it does, and then I invite everyone to the table so that together we can come up with innovative and broad-based solutions that can serve as many people as possible. The fewer or less diverse voices you invite to the table, the smaller and narrower your solution will be and the fewer people it will serve.

  Bernie Glassman

  Business, Government, Together We Can

  14 Copy quote

• The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Government, Ideas

  8 Copy quote

• Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Running, Organization, Entrepreneur

  4 Copy quote

• Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mistake, People, Looks

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.

  Kathleen Hanna

  People, Musician, Use

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers at the top of (those) industries, they don't vary very much. I think in finance, women hold 19 percent of the top jobs, and women are 21 percent of the leaders in nonprofits.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Wall, Thinking

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The good news is I think there are a lot of young people certainly who were involved in my campaigns, and I think continue to be involved in work not just politically, but through nonprofits and other organizations, that can carry this hard work of democracy forward.

  Barack Obama

  Hard Work, Thinking, Organization

  Source: time.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm sorry. If you're working as secretary of state, you do not have time to be spending half of your volume of emails on your own private stuff, whether it's a nonprofit private business or whether it is a for-profit private business. You should not be doing that on company time.

  Jill Stein

  Sorry, Email, Half

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unlike optogenetics, where there are existing nonprofits that give away the DNA for free or at cost, expansion microscopy requires chemicals to be used, so having a company that makes the chemistry kit that anybody can use can save time.

  Edward Boyden

  Dna, Giving, Expansion

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Twenty million jobs is what we call for in the Green New Deal, which is essentially a New Deal focused on greening the economy on an emergency basis. So it's 20 million jobs, which are mixed, private sector, nonprofits, government jobs where others will not do the job and will not create the employment.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Government, Twenties

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to where we are, along with the development of content, which is designed to do nothing else but make you click on it or share it. And I think it's kind of a low goal for content, and I think that's taken us to our current abyss.

  Tim Wu

  Taken, Thinking, Goal

  Source: www.npr.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wikipedia, a nonprofit, is an enormously popular website but has managed to operate without advertising. And, you know, maybe it's a little simpler than Google and YouTube, but it does show there's another way.

  Tim Wu

  Google, Wikipedia, Doe

  Source: www.npr.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's no surprise that the corporate media, and many of the nonprofits that are dependent on the big money, they are not allowing our campaign the real alternative to see the light of day.

  Jill Stein

  Real, Light, Media

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source