Top 39 Quotes About Nonprofits
#1. 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 that religious nonprofits gut precisely that part of their program [funded through tax dollars] that makes them so effective.
Ronald J. Sider
#2. The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.
Mohnish Pabrai
#3. 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? Two hundred thousand.
Mary Landrieu
#4. Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.
Richard Levin
#5. In geometry, as in nature, the circle is the archetypal shape of wholeness and inclusion. It is an effective shape for nonprofits or community-focused efforts.
Maggie Macnab
#6. So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was a food critic for a magazine for a bit, I did writing for nonprofits and political things, I was the editorial consultant for another magazine for a couple years, all sorts of jobs.
Tod Goldberg
#7. 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
#8. The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
Richard Stengel
#9. 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
#10. Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.
Seth Godin
#11. Energy use, transportation options, food choices, water use, purchasing choices, participating in elections, volunteering for nonprofits ... and within each of these categories, each of us can learn to live a more conscious life.
Jayni Chase
#12. But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.
Bill Gates
#13. I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
Damian Woetzel
#14. 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
#15. Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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 deliver lots of service, your nonprofits, churches, humanitarian organizations. Those types of linkages get built up over time, in local communities.
Peter May
#19. Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.
Rush Limbaugh
#20. I think the power of a grandchild is it taps an instinct that people later in life also have towards ... the world of nonprofits or charities. They want to leave a better place.
David Eisenhower
#21. 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
#22. The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
Adam Braun
#23. I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.
David Rubenstein
#24. I'm very interested in working with nonprofits, people in education, medicine, people who are doing things to improve the world and who don't have the money to come to Siegel+Gale for help.
Alan Siegel
#25. One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups like Free Press and other nonprofits who are trying to make the issue urgent and comprehensible. And Andre Blum's book Tubes is great on this topic.
Astra Taylor
#26. When nonprofits, companies and consumers work together, we believe we can make long term, positive change for the millions of people in America who struggle with hunger.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#27. 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
#29. Philanthropy Advantage provides the best nonprofit business consulting in Kansas city, USA. As a leading Microsoft Dynamic CRM consultant in the Kansas city, we are specialized in providing high end MS CRM solutions for Nonprofit and foundations.
Matthew Walker
#30. Create and communicate absolute clarity of purpose.
Omer Soker
#31. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#32. Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.
Gore Vidal
#33. Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.
John W. Gardner
#34. Only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as "nonpatisan, nonprofit." Non-liberal research organizations are always identified as "right-wing" or "conservative."
Irving Kristol
#35. I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.
Cate Marvin
#36. The future is dependent on the decisions you make today.
Omer Soker
#37. Look inward for solutions to your greatest challenges.
Omer Soker
#38. Associations must evolve if they are to survive into the future.
Omer Soker
#39. You cannot be a modern association without a contemporary board.
Omer Soker
