Nonprofits famous quotes

Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Nonprofits #Nimble #Environment

I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Book #Ministry #Nonprofits

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.
-- David Rubenstein

#Age #Nonprofits #Wanted

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as community entrepreneurship.
-- Donald Bren

#Community #Collaboration #Nonprofits

Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.
-- John W. Gardner

#Nonprofits #Pluralism #Democratic

We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.
-- Katherine Boo

#Government #Nonprofits #Helping

When I started it [non for profit], I thought, I'm not smart enough to do this. I had no experience in management, no experience in administration, no experience in nonprofit; but then this phrase came into my head: I only have to be smart enough to find people who are smarter than me; I only have to be smart enough to recognize who knows more than me.
-- Michael J. Fox

#Smart #People #Nonprofits

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.
-- Mikhail Baryshnikov

#Organization #Nonprofits #Compromise

That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.
-- Mitchell Kapor

#Government #Use #Nonprofits

The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.
-- Mohnish Pabrai

#Running #Nonprofits #Problem

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
-- Richard Stengel

#Numbers #Museums #Nonprofits

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.
-- Rick Levin

#Nonprofits #Finance #Tricky

Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
-- Robin Hayes

#Running #United States #Nonprofits

Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.
-- Rush Limbaugh

#Charity #Want #Nonprofits

Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.
-- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

#Generosity #Nonprofits #Social

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
-- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

#Gratitude #Nonprofits #Measurement