Hearth Healthy
June 23, 2008
“Peace, like charity, begins at home.” –Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dear John: No Thanks.
March 12, 2008
In Summer ‘06, NY Governor Eliot Spitzer returned a $50,000 campaign contribution to a donor who was indicted for paying women for sex.
Executive Order
March 6, 2008
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
–Theodore Roosevelt
1st-in-the-Nation Cabinet Position
February 27, 2008
“Government can give direction, it can provide an impetus, but real change has to come from each and every one of us. I want to move civic engagement to the highest levels of state government, which is where it belongs. Californians’ desire and will to serve are there in abundance. We must do everything we can to harness this incredible resource.”
–Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, creator of a brand-new Governor’s Cabinet position: Secretary of Service and Volunteering.
Karen Baker, executive director of California Volunteers, is California’s first-ever Secretary of Service and Volunteering.
Bill’s New Book
July 18, 2007
“We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.”
–Bill Clinton, author of Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World , due out September 4th.
Progressive Provision
June 21, 2007
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
–Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
deliverer of the 1941 “Four Freedoms” speech
What ARE the Four Freedoms?
1. Freedom of speech and expression–everywhere in the world.
2. Freedom of every person to worship God in his own way–everywhere in the world.
3. Freedom from want—everywhere in the world.
4. Freedom from fear–anywhere in the world.
Changing Trumps Complaining
June 18, 2007
“I’ve always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.”
–Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
“Every dollar makes a difference. And that’s true whether it’s Warren Buffett’s remarkable $31 billion pledge to the Gates Foundation, or my late father’s $25 check to the NAACP.”
--Michael Bloomberg, mega-donor to myriad organizations including:
the Carnegie Corporation(gives grants to NYC arts & social services groups), the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Lung Foundation, the World Health Organization, Harvard University & Johns Hopkins University.
