Charity Work
In 2004, Jones received a Queen's Birthday Honour – an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) partly for his service to the media and sports' administration, but also helping many charities, including Youth Off The Streets, the Children's Hospital, Starlight Children's Foundation, the Sir Edward Dunlop Medical Research Foundation and the Heart Research Institute.
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Famous quotes containing the words charity work, charity and/or work:
“Reputation is not of enough value to sacrifice character for it.”
—“Miss Clark,” U.S. charity worker. As quoted in Petticoat Surgeon, ch. 9, by Bertha Van Hoosen (1947)
“Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.”
—Bible: New Testament 1 Corinthians 8:1-2.
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)