Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

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 want to do something that is not political. I want to do some fundraising, just as a volunteer.

I don't know if people understand that there are different ways to raise money for great causes.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

I am a charity campaigner.

Through my career at ExxonMobil, I've been actively involved in United Way campaigns.

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

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.

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.

I would never want to take TOMS or myself into an issues debate. That's not what we're about. We're about helping people.

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.

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.