Charity
Over US$330 million as of June 20, 2012, according to the Newman's Own website had been generated for charity since 1982. The company co-sponsored the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award, which was presented annually to a United States resident who had fought courageously, despite adversity, to safeguard the First Amendment right to freedom of expression as it applied to the written word.
A sampling of grantees is available at the Newman's Own Foundation website along with the distribution of funds by program area. From 2006 to 2008 the largest portions of funding went to human services, health, education, arts, and culture. One beneficiary of his charity is the Hole in the Wall Camps, residential summer camps for seriously ill children, which he co-founded in 1988. Today, there are eleven member camps around the world with additional programs in Africa and Vietnam. Over 135,000 children have attended a Hole in the Wall Camp free of charge, and it is expected that over 17,000 children will attend a Hole in the Wall Camp in 2009. While proceeds from Newman's Own financed the startup of the camp, it now receives funding from many other sources. Other beneficiaries of the profits from Newman's Own have included The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund (from 1983 onwards), the George Washington Carver Community Center (Norwalk), the Safe Water Network, Women of Worth, Stars for Stripes, the Sun Youth Organisation (Montreal), and the Breast Care Centre at Singleton Hospital through the Swansea National Health Service Trust.
Newman's Own Organics pays a name licensing fee, directed to the Newman's Own Foundation, to Newman's Own.
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Famous quotes containing the word charity:
“Our inherent human charity and our religious beliefs will be taxed to the limit. No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity of an education, a job, or simple justice.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“Reputation is not of enough value to sacrifice character for it.”
—“Miss Clark,” U.S. charity worker. As quoted in Petticoat Surgeon, ch. 9, by Bertha Van Hoosen (1947)
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—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.