Philanthropy
Tami's philanthropy as a UNICEF Ambassador (as well as her popularity with young people internationally) earned her the honor of being the Special Guest Speaker at Children’s Day at the United Nations. She spoke in the General Assembly Hall to the delegates of over 100 countries about the hunger, education and wartime issues children face globally. She also spoke internationally on behalf of the United Nations.
From July 1988 to current, Tami has raised funds and awareness for many charities including; UNICEF and the United Nations, Susan G. Koman Foundation, Eve Branson Foundation part of Virgin Unite, PETA, Los Angeles Mission, BuddhaBark Foundation, Best Friends Animal Society, and Create Now among others.
In 2011, Tami partnered with Create Now and La Fine Clothing for an international fundraising campaign where Tami co-designed a line of t-shirts sold in Europe, Japan and the United States with 100% of the profits benefiting Create Now. Previously Tami owned Dreams Clothing Co. for over 5 years and served as the President and Head Designer.
In 2013, Tami became an International Ambassador with Hearts a global eco-fashion company. Hearts has over 2,000 artisans worldwide that design the apparel and part of each purchase is donated to International World Causes including International Lifeline Fund, Pencils of Promise, Generosity Water, Eden Projects, and Chile to Kili, among others.
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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)