Adam Braun Quotes

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.

A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

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

I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.

I'm always keen to have more training as a charity patron.

Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

I want to get involved in causes I believe in, and I know so many others that want to also get involved, but it's hard to know how. Often, it's through big organisations, and you don't know exactly where your money is going or what effect you are having.

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.

It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

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

All of the reality TV I've done has usually been simultaneously an opportunity to create awareness or raise funds for my mom's breast cancer organization.

I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.

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

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.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.

I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

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.

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.