Sentences with phrase «about donations from»

A reporter asks about donations from the fossil fuel industry.

Talk to people in Northern Ireland, and they are clear: the assumption was always that one day, all details held by the Electoral Commission about donations from 2014 onward would one day be published.

In response to questions about the donations from appointees, Cuomo administration officials said they believed that the order only applied to appointees who could be fired at any time by the governor, not those serving set terms.

After being appointed by Mr Brown on September 3rd, Mr Mendelsohn inquired about donations from Janet Kidd, Ray Ruddick and John McCarthy because he did not recognise their names.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks about a donation from President Trump to the Department of Education during the daily press briefing at the White House.

Not exact matches

Buffett still owns about 18 percent of Berkshire's stock, down from 32.3 percent before the donations began in 2006.

The IRS is warning taxpayers about groups pretending to be a charitable organization to attract donations from unsuspecting contributors.

That was covered with about $ 3 million in government funds, and the rest from private donations.

CBS Radio brings in more than a billion dollars in revenue from about 50 million listeners, Henn said, and the public radio universe generates about the same amount of money from pledges and donations, as well as advertising and grants.

The nearly century - old American Civil Liberties Union and its foundations raised about $ 146 million last year, and they're seeing record donations this year, with support from Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Lyft Inc. and other companies.

Fifty guests were treated to dinner and drinks while hearing from development co-ordinator Kaitlin Gordon from Halton Women's Place, who spoke about the critical services and support their donations would fund.

It is also concerned about council members being placed in difficult situations, when the majority of the donations are coming from companies and unions that have a direct interest in decisions made by city council.»

Ultimately, Morgan Stanley raised about $ 160,000 for Escola Vidigal this year from employee donations and a firm match, funds that Muniz plans to use to grow the school and expand its programming.

From an average $ 1,000 donation, GFI would spend about $ 220 on their science and technology program and about $ 200 on building their operating reserve.

For them, I was their pastor and I really don't feel easy to talk about insurance with them since it will involve my own benefit (my commission that will make me survive, so that I can start up a new church from zero since I didn't want to rely on donation from others.).

You will go to church and ask the priest who may or may not have abused little boys, whether you have committed a sin yourself, will ask for forgiveness, will give money to the church as for some inexplicable reason the house of god needs donations from the poor and desolate, and you will go home and feel good about yourself for being so committed to a statue.

From what I know about Mormons they are family oriented, God loving, charity giving (actually one of the biggest charity donation churches in the world), hard working, honest, read the bible and modest dressing group of individuals.

«We get a fair amount of requests from local charities about making donations, and we respond to them regularly,» David Painter says.

Your donation to the Future Organic Farmer Grant Fund helps students from kindergarten through college learn about organic agriculture and grow into organic professionals.

Racing legend Richard Petty, who has partnered with the Smithfield Helping Hungry Homes program to donate thousands of pounds of protein over recent years, will be present to discuss the importance of these donations from Smithfield, and to help raise awareness about the necessity of providing assistance to our neighbors in need.

Arsenal's wealth has come about from their own business activity — not from the donations of another at least since 1910.

Many years there have been donation requests from teachers for very basic items (hello, COPY PAPER) and I fret about how the teachers will afford their classroom supplies if not enough parents donate.

The district «s annual budget is about $ 250,000, supported primarily by tax levies and bond issues, supplemented by program fees and donations such as those from the Park Pride program.

But Nestlé has no shame — the following year, when the Guardian newspaper reported that Breakthrough Breast Cancer had refused a # 1 million donation from Nestlé on ethical grounds, Nestlé sent a letter to the newspaper dismissing criticism of its baby food marketing and claimed it was a force for good in the world, citing the donation made to Ethiopia — of course, it did not mention that that the donation came about not because of Nestlé altruism, but because of campaign protest.

About 25 percent of the donations from Jewel customers will go to organizations in Chicago, including...

The issue comes about six months after the park district endured weeks of controversy when it initially rejected a Nativity scene donation from a former resident.

He leads with party funding, asking about the Tories» donations from hedge funds.

With the state capital besieged by criminal investigations, Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos has warned his members about taking campaign donations from gambling interests.

Miliband paved the way for his proposal of a # 5,000 cap on donations to political parties by asking Cameron about the # 25 million his party has received from hedge funds.

«With just 0.1 percent of his support coming from small donations from everyday New Yorkers, that tells you exactly the chance that Cuomo will care about your concerns: 0.1 percent.

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

About 51 percent of her donations are from within New York state.

[60] In April 2012, in the midst of a debate about the nature of political party funding, Miliband called on David Cameron to institute a # 5,000 cap on donations from individuals and organisations to political parties, after it had been suggested that the government favoured a cap of # 50,000.

The party, which has received $ 243,000 in donations from the United Federation of Teachers and the state teachers union since 2008, slipped in a question about charters in its 18 - page 2010 State Legislature Questionnaire for candidates.

Both candidates accused one another of being too entrenched in the system to be in a position to cast themselves as the outsiders they both claimed to be, and concerns about campaign donations from questionable donors arose on both sides of the campaign.

Funded entirely from donations by thousands of people from all around the country, the initiative is part of the BHA's work to ensure that young people have access to resources that enable them to come to their own decisions about their values and beliefs.

Labour may suffer the biggest headache from the review because of its heavy dependence on the trade unions, which provide about 80 per cent of its donations.

Tax forms from 2012 show SPAC got about $ 1.3 million in gifts and CMAC got about $ 2.2 million in donations and grants.

Mr. Cuomo, who made a fund - raising trip to Los Angeles in January and has been aggressive about promoting the film industry in New York, also drew $ 50,000 from the producer Jeffrey F. Katzenberg, and the same amount in two donations from Steven Spielberg and his wife, the actress Kate Capshaw.

A substantial portion of those companies» donations — at least $ 370,400 — went to the pro-Republican independent expenditure committee Jobs for New York, which raised about 40 percent of its money from donors who are also among Cuomo's top 25 largest donors.

De Blasio could not solicit donations for that nonprofit from «anyone with a matter pending or about to be pending»» before the city.

Five state senators and three Assembly members from Long Island — or about a third of the delegation — received donations from the state Rifle and Pistol Association.

... When I talk about a # 5,000 donation cap, it's got to apply to donations from the trade unions.

In this election cycle, donations to the East Hampton Town Republican Committee, the main fund - raising entity for its candidates, picked up modestly as summer turned to fall, with about $ 61,000 coming in from a total of 10 contributors.

About $ 66,000 of his total came from PAC donations.

Asked about the July donation from General Motors, City Hall spokesman Eric Phillips quipped, «We're shocked.

The $ 500,000 given to the Committee to Save New York thus brings the total from the developer that went to support the governor during his first term to $ 1.97 million — about 32 times the campaign contribution limit imposed on donations from most individuals.

It's easy to be pious about where campaign donations come from when no large donors are offering them anyway.

But media scrutiny about his business practices appears to have dissuaded him from taking on the role, after he moved to Britain last year to enable donations to the Conservatives worth nearly # 3 million.

He was equally non-plussed when asked about the donations he's received from LGBT advocates, as have his fellow GOP yes votes, Sens. Mark Grisanti, Steve Saland and Jim Alesi.