Charity begins at home Quote by Germany Kent

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

— Mel Carnahan

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

“Come up with initiatives that can give people more access to better and higher living.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or…

— Henry Cisneros

“The power of charity work is that it allows you to make a difference where you are, right in your community.”

— Germany Kent

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity,…

— Jerry Brown

“What will make the people in your neighborhood be glad you are there? Connect with individuals and leaders in the community and begin to…

— Timothy Keller

“your poverty is serving no one. If you’re a charitable person, you’d be a whole lot more charitable if you had lots of money.”

— Napoleon Hill

“personal involvement offers the best way to determine if our charitable investments are being put to good use.”

— Robert D. Lupton

I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“The power of philanthropy at its best supports underserved communities, persons affected by persistent poverty, and empowers everyday people to make a difference.”

— Germany Kent

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell