Generosity Quote by Angelica Ross

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

I'm intrigued by people who make their modest living doing good things for others. Teachers, nonprofit workers, librarians... those are the heroes in our…

— George Pelecanos

I've set up businesses. I've set up charities. I have actually done the work myself.

— Andrea Leadsom

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

There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.

— Bonnie Raitt

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

— Katherine Boo

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

— John W. Gardner

I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money…

— Anne Graham Lotz

I just thought I could broaden my impact and my reach by starting a non-profit and putting investment into our community.

— Vic Mensa

Charity work is part of my life. I do it, I expect to do it, but it is not a career.

— Princess Michael of Kent

One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you…

— Oprah Winfrey

I've been supporting Help for Heroes for many years - I actually rode in their first-ever official fundraiser back in 2008. I have witnessed…

— Peta Todd