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“I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.”

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Author:Charles Koch

“To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage.”

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Author:Darren Walker

“Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.”

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Book:The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

Source: The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

“In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it by economic or social theorists. In economic theory, especially, the subject is almost completely ignored. This is not, I think, because economists regard mankind as basically selfish or even because economic man is supposed to act only in his self-interest; it is rather because economics has essentially grown up around the phenomenon of exchange and its theoretical structure rests heavily on this process.”

“Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.”

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Author:Robert L. Payton

“The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal and social life that cannot be provided by the self-interest of economic enterprise or required by the mandate of political institutions.”