Charity
Kataoka has created prints for various charities which have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years. In 2001, she endowed the Drue Kataoka Rotary Arts Scholarship which has been awarded to 11 artists. Other supported causes include the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Coaches vs. Cancer, Stanford Athletic Scholarships, Stanford CAL Camps for Underprivileged Kids, The Legal Aid Society, the Koret Foundation, the United Way of the Bay Area, the Black Community Services Center at Stanford, the Stanford Native American Indian Organization, and the Pacific Art League.
Read more about this topic: Drue Kataoka
Famous quotes containing the word charity:
“With a smile of Christian charity great Casey’s visage shone;
He stilled the rising tumult, he made the game go on;”
—Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863–1940)
“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 St. Paul, in 1 Corinthians, 8:1-2.
“When a sparrow sips in the river, the water doesn’t recede. Giving charity does not deplete wealth. Saint Kabir says so.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.