Philanthropy
Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn’s CEO, has said that “Reid’s true north is making a positive and lasting impact on the world, in a very profound way.” He serves on the boards of Do Something (organization for young people taking action), Kiva.org (a micro-finance organization), Mozilla (creator of Firefox), the Exploratorium (a museum of science, art and human perception) and Endeavor Global an international non-profit development organization that finds and supports high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Hoffman is also a supporter and Chair of the Advisory Board for QuestBridge, the nation's leading provider of talented low-income students to top colleges/universities.
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Famous quotes containing the word philanthropy:
“... 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)
“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)