Sentences with phrase «described as a donation»

This action could be described as a donation, but crowdfunding and donations do differ in meaning.

One memorable ICO, Tezos, generated $ 232 million (which it described as donations) for options on tokens on a network that has yet to exist — as well as four class - action lawsuits from its backers.

Not exact matches

POLITICO's Ben Smith described this as a «passive - aggressive» fundraising ploy — using a person's address to guilt them into making a donation.

The Daily Beast described Luckey as «funding Trump's meme machine» in 2016, which is an apparent overstatement since the donation was supposedly a fairly small $ 10,000, and Nimble America's only clear action was putting up a «Too Big To Jail» billboard.

Many people will also want documentation describing their charitable donations, their medical expenses (if more than 7 percent of your income), and a 1099 - misc from payments collected as a non-employee.

The level of spending by some candidates in the last municipal election was described as «insane» by Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, after some Calgary city council candidates raised more than $ 270,000 largely through corporate donations.

An ICO could be described as a mixture between a donation and an investment.

Your donation will help pay for a web designer as well as for someone to create the resources I just described.

Oakeshott, now an independent, described his donations as «doing his bit to save our country from a Tory government cringing to Ukip».

The weeks before the recess were a difficult time for Balls, with a mis - sent email from Ed Miliband's aide Torsten Bell describing him as a «nightmare», Conservative attacks over his acceptance in 2012 of a # 50,000 donation from the Co-operative Group, and calls by some Labour MPs for his removal following his much - criticised response to Osborne's Autumn Statement.

Oakeshott described his donations as «doing his bit to save our country from a Tory government cringing to Ukip».

But on the Electoral Commission's register of donations, it is described only as a donation from the MIC, Ms Blears claims.

The Minority Spokesperson on Constitutional, Parliamentary and Legal Affairs, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, has described the donation of GHc 10,000, among others items, to the Attorney General's office by the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana as an insult to Ghanaians.

But Paladino, describing himself as a businessman, justified the donations by saying he likes the jobs Democratic chairman Jeremy Zellner and Democratic County Executive Mark Poloncarz have been doing locally.

These donations were made less than a week after the governor vetoed a bill leaders of the Hasidic village described as restricting its development.

Such carryforward amounts could include net capital losses or other losses from prior years, unused registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) contributions, unclaimed charitable donations (as described further below), unused tuition, education and textbook amounts, interest on student loans, resource pool balances and investment tax credits.

Further, only 42 % of Canadians would describe themselves as knowledgeable about developing a strategy for charitable giving, and just half (51 %) say they are knowledgeable on how to incorporate their donations into an overall financial plan.

The newspaper's investigation found that rescue operations, traditionally the nemesis of puppy mills, have been buying dogs from breeders at auction, using donations from their supporters to buy dogs in what it described as a «nationwide shadow market.»

The latest revamp has been paid for by a major Heritage Lottery Fund grant and scores of donations from trusts, private donors, and members of the public — an effort that Tate chairman Lord Browne described as a model of how to achieve major projects through philanthropic giving.

The museum's director, Fabrice Hergott, who selected the Werner gift, describes the donation as the most significant to the museum — which was established in 1937 and opened to the public in 1961 — since a 1951 bequest from Maurice Girardin.

Current Whitechapel curator Nayai Yiakoumaki describes the exhibition as «very important», adding that, from that moment on «the art world was captivated by Rothko and subsequently, [Tate Director] Norman Reid, approached the artist to discuss a purchase of works... culminating with the substantial donation of eight of the Seagram Murals to the Tate in 1970

[8] Converting the Hôtel de Montfaucon was a condition imposed by Lambert when he promised 560 works to the French State one year later; at the time, the donation was described as France's largest gift of art since the Pablo Picasso estate's donation in 1974.

The piece then cites several stories that were online sensations that turned out to be false, including a first - person essay on poverty that garnered $ 60,000 in donations to the author, who, when outed, described her essay as «impressionistic» rather than factual (And kept the money).

As the Divisional Court recognised at paragraph [29] of its judgment, «if making a donation of the kind described in paragraph 2 (1)(c) of Schedule 15 also involves incurring a referendum expense, then only permitted participants could make such donations exceeding # 10,000, and only the designation organisation could make such donations exceeding # 700,000, without contravening the rules restricting campaign spending.»

As the Divisional Court recognised at paragraph [29] of its judgment, «if making a donation of the kind described in paragraph 2 (1)(c) of Schedule 15 also involves incurring a referendum expense, then only permitted participants could make such donations exceeding # 10,000, and only the designation organisation could make such donations exceeding # 700,000, without contravening the rules restricting campaign spending.»

WINGS tokens were recently distributed to all donation crowdfunding participants in what many describe as one of the most successful cryptocurrency crowdfunds of 2016.