Nonprofits Quotes

Nonprofits Quote of the day

Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.

Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.

There's a general intuition around the nonprofit world these days that younger generations are less likely to join. But I have found in my research that that's quite wrong.

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? 200,000.

We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as community entrepreneurship.

It's no surprise that the corporate media, and many of the nonprofits that are dependent on the big money, they are not allowing our campaign the real alternative to see the light of day.

Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.

I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.

Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

Associations must evolve if they are to survive into the future.

Create and communicate absolute clarity of purpose.

You cannot be a modern association without a contemporary board.

The future is dependent on the decisions you make today.

Look inward for solutions to your greatest challenges.