Stacy Palmer Quotes (14 Quotes)

I would assume that he would want to do something to demonstrate that he was being socially responsible through his giving ...

The scale of this disaster is so big, that there is certainly going to be a lot of effort by the charities to call attention to long-term needs. So I would expect that giving will go in waves for quite a long period of time.

These are people who otherwise don't get a lot of attention for their giving, or anything else, have a lot of money and are using it philanthropically. One of the challenges of compiling the list is that a lot of people don't want to talk about it.

a very remarkable outpouring, but compared to the amount of need . . . there's still a fund-raising challenge ahead.

All those bonuses are going into philanthropy.

I really think the biggest reason has got to be people seeing government agencies not doing the right thing, ... and that drove them to support a private response and do it quickly by sending it online.

After you see the pictures on the television I think that just motivated so many people to give. They just saw they had a responsibility to do something.

Usually these big bequests happen because people donate all their money when they die, and when they're alive, they give smaller amounts.

They get very engaged in grant proposals and a little geeky. They really read them, they care about them, they read the science journals, they will question the scientist and they probably know more about the topic than some of the experts in the field.

This is a big giving time of the year when a lot of donors are making decisions about where their charitable donations will go, and now they might wonder whether their contributions were well-used.

The Internet definitely helped tsunami giving. It may make people more comfortable with online giving in the future.

People are very frustrated when they see the slowness of the response (to the hurricane). People figure they can give a gift very quickly. The slowness of the response is part of what triggered this outpouring of donations.

It is definitely possible. It depends on what the government decides to do and how much more money is needed from the private sector, ... A lot of people wait until they are asked by a role model. Celebrities are very good at encouraging people to give to causes.

We really seem at a stage where growth is happening in a fairly spectacular way.