Queen Latifah Quotes

I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

What tournaments want to do, typically, is support charities in their community that need the money and charities that are impactful to their community. The better the job the tournament does for the charities, the better they are able to sell the tournament and raise money for the charity.

I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

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

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.

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 am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

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

I put the 'fun' in fund-raising and the 'rah' in Israel.

Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.

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

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 play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.

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

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

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

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

I'm starting the Juicy J Scholarship Foundation. I'm going to start doing a lot of different things trying to help out and give back.

When I was younger, I played sports and went to camp. As I got older, my parents began to instill in us the importance of giving back to the community, especially those places around the world that are less fortunate than my very privileged life growing up in Los Angeles.

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

I'm an ambassador for World of Children and St Jude's, it always been very important for me to use modeling as a platform to give back or raise awareness for causes that are important.

Anything I can do to raise awareness and money for charity, I like to do.

You don't want to hear about how much money I donate to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America or to AIDS awareness or to give out scholarships. You don't want to hear about that.