Sentence examples for charitable undertaking from inspiring English sources

Ms. Nelson's most ambitious charitable undertaking to date is for a Creole village on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, which she had visited doing research.

And, as happened with BSD Unix, Mr Joy is determined to make his open-source JXTA the standard for peer-to-peer networking.What does Sun get out of this charitable undertaking?

Since 2006, she is Executive Director of Palms for Life Fund, a U.S.-based not for profit that promotes a global alliance to end poverty from a basic human rights perspective, not as a charitable undertaking.

All the money from speeches and writings goes to donations to outside charities, to charitable projects undertaken by his office and to his and Mrs Brown's charitable and public service work.

One of the things I most admired about the now-defunct television programme Secret Millionaire was that it revealed the hard, largely thankless charitable work undertaken by people in their communities – people who often suffered enormous disadvantage themselves, yet asked for no praise or fanfare in return for their kindness towards others.

For the aspiring dame, the selectors' reverence for acting over all other extra-governmental careers, even sporting ones, indicates performance (take royal/upscale roles for preference) as the most reliable route, with or without some low-key charitable work, undertaken, in common with Britain's millions of nameless volunteers, with no thought of public acclaim.

Interventions for people with disabilities are mostly viewed as charitable, largely undertaken by NGOs.

Widowed in 1625, she had already chosen Vincent de Paul as her spiritual guide, and he encouraged her to undertake charitable works.

Some, for instance, are formerly private or demutualised enterprises which, on going public, created charitable foundations and undertook to keep them financed.

Agassi also was notable for the charitable ventures he undertook, including the founding of the Andre Agassi Foundation (1994) to aid at-risk children.

The concerted attack on such charitable activity when undertaken by Muslims threatens to further alienate a generation of young people politicised by the relentless images of suffering from Syria and Gaza.