Lyda HIll Holdings, Inc.

Funding game-changing advancements

    Founder

    Striving to make the world a better place.

    Lyda Hill is a Dallas entrepreneur, philanthropist, and one of the few women to make the 2013 Philanthropy list of most generous donors and Forbes’ 2014 list of top 15 entrepreneurs who give back to the community. She is chairman of LH Holdings, Inc., a private investment firm, and the Lyda Hill Foundation. Through her for-profit and not-for-profit investments, Miss Hill is committed to funding game-changing advances in science and nature, to empowering nonprofit organizations, and to improving the local communities of greatest importance to her, North Texas and Colorado Springs.

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    Philanthropy


    Changing the world

    The Lyda Hill Foundation is a private foundation committed to using its resources to fund game-changing advances in science and nature, to empower nonprofit organizations, and to improve the local communities of greatest importance to its founder, Miss Lyda Hill.

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  • “Do your givin’ while you’re livin’… then you’ll be knowin’ where it’s goin’.”

    — Ann Landers

  • “The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities
    – a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.”

    — John D. Rockefeller

  • “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

    — Robert Louis Stevenson

  • “The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.”

    — Henry Ford

  • “The proper aim of giving is to put the recipients in a state where they no longer need our gifts.”

    — C.S. Lewis

  • “Philanthropy is the practice of applying assets of knowledge, passion and wealth to bring about constructive change.”

    — Peter Goldmark

  • “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

    — Nelson Henderson

  • “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

    — William James

  • “Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.”

    — Henry David Thoreau

  • “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

    — Albert Pike

  • “A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world.”

    — Mohammed

  • “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

    — Margaret Mead

  • “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

    — Anne Frank

  • “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”

    — Winston Churchill

  • “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”

    — Walt Disney