Philanthropy
Bell serves on several nonprofit boards in the arts including P.S. Arts where she serves as president-at-Large and has helped raise funds to provide arts to 11,000 low-income, Los Angeles public school children. Bell chairs the National Arts Awards for Americans For The Arts (a nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington DC), and through the Bell Family Foundation supports the NAA Bell Family Foundation Young Artist Award. At The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Anageles (MOCA) Bell has served as the Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees since 2009, and has helped raise more than eleven million dollars to support MOCA and its programs. In addition, she sits on the boards of Center Dance Arts, Dicapo Opera Theater, and the American Friends of The Musee Des Arts Decoratifs, Paris. Bell is also a committed and active board member of The Melanoma Research Alliance and Marlborough School, Los Angeles.
In the fall of 2012, Bell was nominated by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and subsequently sworn in on December 11, 2012 as Commissioner to the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Committee.
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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)
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—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)