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Values, Ethics, and Charity
Businesses get it: charity is good for business. According to the Council on
Foundations, more than two thousand corporate foundations contribute in excess
of $12 billion a year to nonprofit organizations in cash, goods, and services.
Business philanthropy generates invaluable publicity, illuminating corporate
fulfillment of community responsibility. Workers, too, have taken a hard look at
their own values and ethics, and are trying to determine how they fit into the
workplace. “Social responsibility” is the new buzzword, with both employees
and the world at large benefitting, as the quotes below show.
Don’t be foolish with the money you’ve made. No big cars. Second, remember
who you are. Stay humble and be generous. It’s the right thing to do, and it feels
good.
—T. Boone Pickens, Texas oilman and investor
One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do
