Mark Wahlberg Quotes

We always work for money but when you do something for The Banyan, you feel so good.

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

My mom's a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations.

I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.

My own service started when I was 12, with the small charity I launched with 12 friends. Twenty years later, millions have joined our ranks - educators, business leaders and prominent Canadians.

During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.

I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity. I'm so proud to be on that and help them.

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

You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

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

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.

I volunteer a lot of my time with an organization in New York called The Center for Children and Families.

My husband, Andrew Shue, is the co-founder of Do Something, and we both speak and present at awards ceremonies. It's absolutely amazing and humbling to see all the work so many young people are contributing to better their communities on both a local and global front.

I'm an artist, but, as I get older, I really want to do philanthropic work and help people.

I've always been involved with charities and things like that, but when I started communicating with the fans and hearing their stories about the lives they lead, it really made an impact on me.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

When I got signed, I wanted to be involved in a charity, but it was hard because I didn't know which problems to start with.

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.

My greatest work comes in the community.

I very much believe in teaching young people about philanthropy, and to give back.

Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.

I am a charity campaigner.

In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.