Stephanie March Quotes

Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it.

How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.

I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.

It was only in 2001 that I set up a foundation, Arghyam. That was pretty much to learn the ropes of how to give, what to do.

While governments are not off the hook, the charity world needs to innovate and find new ways to attract outside investment to boost our social productivity.

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.

Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.

In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.

I think all philanthropy invests in product innovation, whether in a vaccine or a new kind of product of one sort or another, and I think we'll all continue to do that.

The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.

True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.

Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

You can express your generosity in ways that are virtually limitless. This was what I wanted to convey in 'Giving 2.0' - that whether you have $10 or $10 million to give, if you identify the right opportunities and make the most of your resources, your impact can be tremendous.

But charity is a very complicated thing. It's important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.

I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

In my experience, the more successful an idea is, the easier it is to fund it. In philanthropy, it's almost harder.