Philanthropy
Hilton has also became involved with several nonprofits and international charity organizations. She has been part of the Nancy Davis Foundation for Multiple Sclerosis. Hilton has participated in fundraising and awareness raising. She first became involved with the fundation because she "lost my grandmother to multiple sclerosis so this cause is something very close to my heart. I believe that they will find a cure if everyone does their part". In June 2008, she donated money to the construction of a medical building at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. She stated that "the children I have met through my involvement with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have truly touched my heart. I am proud to make a donation and lend my name to the fundraising effort to help children who are facing terribly serious illnesses. The fabulous new hospital facilities at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles will provide a caring, healing environment for children and their families for many years to come."
In 2010, Hilton was named as ambassador for a new initiative from the USO that aims to give a MP3 player to all US active service troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hilton has been also part of the Starlight Children's Foundation and in March 2011, she received the fundation's Heart of Gold Award, alongside her sister Nicky and mother Kathy. She participated with Fergie and husband Josh Duhamel in the run that raised money for the people affected by the Japan Earthquake. In early 2012, she got involved with My Hope for Children. In July 2012, she donated $5,000 to a fan suffering from muscular dystrophy. He posted a video on his personal page thanking Hilton for the contribution.
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Famous quotes containing the word philanthropy:
“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)
“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)
“... 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)