Philanthropy
Ryan Leslie grew up as the son of Salvation Army officers. “For as long as I can remember, every Thanksgiving and Christmas I’ve spent at home has been shared with an extended family made up of those in the community,” he said about the Salvation Army. Leslie tutored children and traveled as a musical ambassador at the early age of 14.
Ryan Leslie used his first $450,000 advance payment in 2003 to mentor youth. Leslie continues to serve, working closely with LetsFCancer and All As One charities. More recently, Leslie was named Artist-in-Residence at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in 2011. Ryan guided students through group lectures and songwriting critiques about the skills he used to succeed in the music industry.
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Famous quotes containing the word philanthropy:
“... 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)
“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)
“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)