Nonprofits Quotes

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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
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… — Casey Affleck
I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's… — Chelsea Clinton
Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization. — Madeleine M. Kunin
Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the… — Peter Drucker
Centralized sounds good ... but the reality is that the National Guard and Army don't have the kind of ties with local organizations that ultimately… — Peter May
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… — Mary Landrieu
Evidence is mounting that faith-based service programs are often more successful than other programs in correcting social problems. [It is wrong] for government to demand… — Ronald J. Sider
History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her performance affected the… — George Wein
Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this… — Lori Gottlieb
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
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… — Bill Gates
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… — Peter Drucker
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… — Bernie Glassman
Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple. — Seth Godin
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,… — Jacqueline Novogratz
Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism. — John W. Gardner
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
The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel they must fight… — John W. Gardner
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… — Cat Cora

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