Philanthropy
Harry Cohen was considered to be one of the major community builders/philanthropists in Calgary, not to mention playing a substantive role on a national level, most notably as a director for the Federal Business Development Bank (subsequently renamed the Business Development Bank of Canada). Volunteering for some 30 organizations (his favorite being Scouts Canada, he was known for his generosity and warm spirit. Cohen ascribed his desire to help others as a result of growing up impoverished and never forgetting where he came from. His partner in philanthropy, wife Martha Cohen, is best known for creating the Calgary Centre for the Performing Arts in the downtown area. As a surprise birthday gift, Harry donated one million dollars toward the facility in 1983 and had a theater named after her.
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Famous quotes containing the word philanthropy:
“Almost every man we meet requires some civility,—requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I shall not be forward to think him mistaken in his method who quickest succeeds to liberate the slave. I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... the hey-day of a woman’s life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)