Rick Dees Quotes

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.

We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money.

As you might imagine, I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests, and I basically try to do what I can.

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

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

I want to make money for third-world-country kids, and I need to be smart about how to do it.

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

I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.

But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.

Meeting people who want to start a charity, help out their families, or raise money for a good cause has been really fun.

I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.

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

When I decided to do 'The Celebrity Apprentice,' there was absolutely no question that I would play the game for GMHC.

As a philanthropist, I fund a lot of NGOs.

Charity fundraising galas have always been a wonderful way to support a myriad of causes.

I have a philanthropy advisor, Hari Menon, who was earlier at the Gates Foundation.

The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.

I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities.

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.

One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.

I started off with making personal donations and eventually set up my own foundation, VTCY Foundation, now known as Better Malaysia Foundation. My contributions are also made through companies that I own.

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.