Charitable Work
NEH became a registered charity in February 2006, their stated aims being to:
- Promote the mental and moral improvement of the human race by the advancement of the philosophy of humanism.
- Advance the education of the public in the philosophy of humanism.
- Promote charitable purposes.
The group has an established fund-raising committee which researches charitable causes compatible with Humanist thinking, and organises events to raise money for these charities and for the group’s own campaigns.
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Famous quotes containing the words charitable and/or work:
“For my name and memory I leave it to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“I move my thin legs into your office
and we work over the cadaver of my soul.
We make a stage set out of my past
and stuff painted puppets into it.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)