Anna Maria Chavez Quotes

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

Points of Light - through our affiliates in 250 U.S. communities and 15 international sites - engages 4 million volunteers in 30 million hours of service each year touching countless lives.

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

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've long wanted to find a charitable cause to really get involved with and be passionate about. I get invited to a lot of charity events to sing, and I am happy to help and bring a source of entertainment, but I'm sort of disconnected from them.

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

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

When we go and play live... we go and we work with like different organizations: the food banks, homeless shelters, children's hospitals or different homes that are reaching out to people. And just to actually go and say, 'Hey, don't just hear me play, come to my concert, that's it, hope you have a good night.' It's like, 'Hey, come be a part.'

Every one of us has the ability to raise awareness, volunteer, educate our friends and family, and give back to our communities.

The George H. W. Bush Volunteer Generation Fund will further expand the scope and effectiveness of volunteerism.

As the nation is aware, I have been doing charity movements through the Beautiful Foundation and Beautiful Stores, and carrying out projects to promote hope and governance of our society.

You've got a bunch of kids out here that might not want to be athletes, but they want to learn how to make a difference in their community, and I'm trying to as best I can show an example of that.

I believe in sharing and contributing to society without being in politics.

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

Welcome to We Day! Since last year, WE have volunteered over 1.7 million hours of our time!

I think volunteerism in America generally is what makes America so special.

I had been a Girl Scout from the time I was 8 to the time I was 18 years old. I had belonged to my church organization and youth groups. But, you never really found a way that you could make a change.

I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.

After PepsiCo, I do want to go to Washington. I want to give back.

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.

There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.

I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.