Philanthropy is Love | Pamela Hawley
Transcript, Philanthropy is Love | Pamela Hawley:
Pamela Hawley: Philanthropy. I think the way people look at it today isn’t really correct. They look at it as giving of money. But really what it is is people, it’s the love of people. It’s all about people. It’s about the love of humanity.
So what I love about this real definition of philanthropy is that every moment we can be philanthropists. So I think that is super powerful. Anyone who’s wishing for a mission in life. You could be a philanthropist right now.
That means when you’re in Safeway and you’re at the checker, you’re not just sit there checking out your groceries. You’re asking that grocer, how are you doing today? Connecting with them with your dry cleaner, with the person at the bus stop.
It is about the love of people. Now, it does go into money too, but the money is just a vehicle to change hearts. When you give. Your mind is changed, your heart is changed. The type of voting you might do might change. Your compassion has changed. That’s what we want to see long-term with universal giving.
Universal giving isn’t really just about the giving and volunteering. We’re about creating a great sense of connection and peace and community and understanding between people of very, very different backgrounds and for people to cherish the different backgrounds that each person comes from.
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Pamela Hawley is the founder and CEO of UniversalGiving™ (www.UniversalGiving.org), an award-winning nonprofit helping people to donate and volunteer with top performing, vetted organizations all over the world. 100% goes direct to the cause! All organizations are vetted with a proprietary Quality Model™. UniversalGiving Corporate helps manage global CSR for companies, including the strategy, operations and NGO Vetting. Key clients include Cisco, Gap, BHP Billiton, Fluor, RSF Social Finance and Symantec.
Pamela is a winner of the Jefferson Award (the Nobel Prize in Community Service), and has been invited to three Social Innovation events at the White House. UniversalGiving has been featured on the homepage of BusinessWeek, Oprah.com, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Pamela was a finalist for Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and is an Expert Blogger for Fast Company and CSRWire. She also writes Living and Giving, a daily blog with the mission of “Inspiring Leaders to Live with Excellence and Love.”
Pamela’s community service began at the age of 12. She has volunteered in microfinance in remote villages of India; crisis relief work in the 2000 El Salvador earthquake; sustainable farming in Guatemala; with the victims of Pol Pot’s regime in Cambodia; and indigenous community preservation in Ecuador. She has a Political Science degree cum laude from Duke University and a Masters in International Communication at the Annenberg School of Communications, USC. Pamela is also an actress, improviser, dancer and singer with over 100 performances in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. You can see her performances at pamelahawley.com.
Most important to Pamela is that she adores her family. Her parents Wally and Alex have been married for more than 50 years. She loves being an aunt to Will, Connor, and Lindsey.
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