​~"Responsibility begins with those closest to us, those who have become in some way “the other half of our soul,” but it extends outward, in a series of concentric circles. As we grow ethically, we come to feel responsibility to our neighbors, our city, our organization, our profession, our ethnic or religious group, our country and even our world; we come to feel responsible even to abstract ideals like truth, beauty and honor. We not only feel such things, we behave in remarkable ways out of such feelings and commitments. People give their time, their talents, their worldly goods and sometimes even their lives out of such feelings of responsibility​." 
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~excerpt from Michael O'Neill's article "Fundraising as an Ethical Act~