“Giving is fundamental to who and what we are as individuals and as communities, from our closest neighborhoods to the family of humanity. Giving is not only nice to do when we are done with the important business of the world. In fact, much of the important business of the world would be hard to imagine if we took away the giving that occurs in all the places where we take it for granted: when we smile, when we offer up personal details to form a relationship with another, when we respond instinctively to help someone who is about to drop something, or when we make sacrifices for others ranging from the mundane to giving one’s life.”
Amir Pasic, dean of the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, from a Philanthropy Matters enewsletter article titled “What Matters“