Sentences with phrase «by local donors»
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«Donor - advised funds that are sponsored by a community foundation tend to have a more singular focus and they're on the local pulse of charitable activity,» said Gavin Morrissey, managing partner at Financial Strategy Associates in Needham, Massachusetts.
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Often aid was channeled by the donor into the infrastructure for foreign investment and conditioned on the purchase of goods produced by the metropolis so that a rational development policy based on local needs became impossible.»
Food Donation Connection provides an alternative to discarding surplus wholesome food by linking food service donors with surplus food to local hunger relief agencies.
According to Common Cause NY, which is providing the data employed by local groups in these grassroots events, two of every three dollars Saland has received since 2005 came from donors who live outside his Hudson Valley district, and 96 percent of his contributions were higher than $ 200.
Though he was tainted by a fund - raising scandal last year that led to the convictions of campaign staffers, Mr. Liu dwarfed Mr. Avella's fund - raising haul: relying on a combination of local corporations and small donors from around the nation, Mr. Liu pulled in more than a half million dollars for his eastern Queens bid.
Probers are seeking to investigate charges that team de Blasio sought to evade individual campaign limits of $ 10,300 by having donors make big donations to local county committees, which in turn earmarked and funneled the money to specific candidates.
On March 20, Hill amended Senate Bill 831 to include a requirement that non-profits that pay for trips taken by state and local elected officials disclose to the Fair Political Practices Commission the donors that funded the travel.
The ethics agreement will also expand disclosure requirements by political consultants who do work for elected officials as well as for clients with business before the state or local governments, and increase the number of donors to groups that perform lobbying who will be required to disclose their identities.
«Our findings show how local arenas can serve as important battlegrounds in national politics — penetrated by networks of outside donors and organizations who see local elections as critical contests over competing visions of education,» said Reckhow.
Local school board elections increasingly are becoming a national political battleground, as millions of dollars in campaign cash pours in from out - of - state donors in the name of education reform, indicates new research led by a Michigan State University scholar.
Prior to the start of the experiment, ethical approval for the donor monkey infection was provided by the local independent ethical committee, complying with Dutch law (BPRC Dier Experimenten Commissie, DEC; agreement number DEC # 750).
Our events are held in local halls, run by local volunteers and largely funded by local businesses and donors.
The Kalamazoo Promise was funded by anonymous donors who, according to the school district, had three primary goals: 1) to promote local economic and community development, in part by attracting parents and businesses to the Kalamazoo area; 2) to boost educational achievement and attainment; and 3) to increase confidence in KPS.
The influence that these private philanthropists exercise is now being felt in school districts from coast to coast and manifests itself in the policies favored by the donors: the introduction of a corporate model in school administration, merit pay for teachers, giving local schools greater autonomy from their respective districts and the opening of more charter schools.
Whether this help is funded by the district, granted by donors, or offered pro bono by local firms is immaterial — what matters is the focus on ways to help district leaders drive improvement.
Because of our donors we are able to make a difference by engaging hundreds or thousands of local school library supporters in new and innovative ways and activating them to support their local school librarians.
In 2015 - 16, thanks to the generosity of donors, we aim to change 57,200 lives by investing in local programs, services and other initiatives.
Our events are held in local halls, run by local volunteers and largely funded by local businesses and donors.
Public and unregistered donors are also encouraged to support local animal welfare organizations by donating in - kind goods and services.
Our events are held in local halls, run by local volunteers and largely funded by local businesses and donors.
Local support is provided by Christie's, the generous donors to the Annual Fund Leadership Campaign and the citizens who support the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).
Bonavista Biennale 2017 was awarded the Tourism Excellence Award from Hospitality Newfoundland, and was generously supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Canada 150 Fund, NLArts, ACOA, Fishers Loft, corporate sponsors, local businesses and individual donors.
There are specific projects and programmes, funded by donors and governments, which try to address CC at the local level, and which sometimes (but not always) work through LGs.
It only says «CCAP is funded by several diverse sources, such as private foundations, U.S. federal, state, local, and international governments, individual donors and corporations.»
The Heartland Institute is a conservative leaning think tank funded by a number of business donors, and the main funder of the conference is a local libertarian millionaire who just happens to want a bit of openness and honesty in the debate on AGW.
Small local banks, by their very nature, will never be on the list of big donors to political elections simply because they are small enough to stay out of the fray.
We are extremely grateful to all of the donors - large and small - and to all of local businesses that have hosted and continue to host fundraisers for the Stoneman Douglas victims» families, survivors and those impacted by this senseless atrocity.
Our events are held in local halls, run by local volunteers and largely funded by local businesses and donors.
Tulsa Educare, Inc. was formed in 2004 as a cooperative effort between public entities and private donors, led by local businessman George Kaiser.
Our events are held in local halls, run by local volunteers and largely funded by local businesses and donors.
She said that after they'd secured partial funding from NAR, she was able to get local donors to increase their promised contributions by telling them a national organization had signed on.
Fears credits Helman with setting in motion a program to expand the local United Way's donor base by reaching beyond Terre Haute to the nearby counties.