Most TV and movie people who adopt a cause, he adds, "say a few words, they'll go to a dinner, they'll give some money, but this is time.
"That's the world she loves," he said, though he claims that she will also find time "to do what First Ladies have done historically," which is to adopt a cause.
He would adopt a cause, only to become dissatisfied, deciding that it wasn't important enough, or was too unlikely to succeed, and he would move on to something else.
This is the second time Clear Channel Communities, the corporate social responsibility arm of Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, has adopted a cause to promote, as part of a program begun last January.
Even the chief statistician of the OECD called for better measures of the progress than the traditional yardstick provided by GDP thereby adopting a cause that used to be a hobby-horse reserved for environmental activists.The 700 were divided ino nearly 70 "Global Agenda Councils", and encouraged to brainstorm.
I'd have to admit, as well, that I had never adopted a cause in my life.
One particularly harsh critic said that Arnold was a "mean mercenary, who, having adopted a cause for the sake of plunder, quits it when convicted of that charge".
In our last post, we introduced the concept of supporter shift -- the change in the composition of the group of people who care enough about a nonprofit organization to give money, volunteer or adopt a cause.
"ChristinePAC can investigate and counter attack leftwing groups, many funded with one million dollars or more from billionaire leftist George Soros," O'Donnell writes, seemingly adopting a cause most loudly championed by conservative pundit Glenn Beck.
In reaction, the soldier-murderer has been adopted as a cause by some Jordanians opposed to normalising relations with Israel.
