Sentences with phrase «donor dollars by»

Maximize your grants and donor dollars by creating a community - wide dollar - for - dollar matching challenge.

Not exact matches

Working out of an nondescript brick rowhouse in suburban Virginia, a little - known organization named Donors Trust, staffed by five employees, has steered hundreds of millions of dollars to the most influential think tanks, foundations, and advocacy groups in the conservative movement.

National Charities» donor - advised funds have grown significantly in recent years by number of individual donor - advised funds, the dollar value of grants made to qualified charities, the dollar value of contributions received, and the dollar value of charitable assets.

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If you donate between 12 - 1 pm EST today, every dollar will be matched by generous donors!

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.

What we got this weekend was our first hint that it might be joined by an actual, intentional EFFORT to raise money from small - dollar donors and join the modern campaign - funding world.

Institute a statewide public financing system based on the one used by NYC, which matches every dollar in small donor contributions with six dollars in public funds

She said Cuomo is beholden to his big - dollar donors, tarred by corruption, secretly supportive of keeping Republicans in power in the state senate, and to blame for the condition of the failing subways run by the state - controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Far from swept away by torrents of money flowing from individual big - dollar donors, the Democrats and their small - dollar donors are holding their own.

After all, why would a campaign pay for a focus group when they can get the same information by advertising online, with those ad dollars doing double - duty by building the all - important supporter / donor list?

Last week I had the privilege of going on Karen Jagoda's Digital Politics Radio show, where we talked at length about the DSCC and other Democratic groups» grassroots outreach and media spending to try to salvage the 2014 elections, largely funded by small - dollar online donors.

Nixon's campaign is trying to build on the playbook established by Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in 2016, when he was able to draw thousands of small - dollar donors, a move intended to highlight his lack of fealty to special interests and corporations.

The projection, made in a document distributed by RNC officials at the group's summer meeting in Kansas City, comes as the committee is being forced to compete for donor dollars with a growing number of independent expenditure groups which are spending money to help defeat Democrats in November.

According to campaign officials, four donors paid top dollar to sit with the governor, his girlfriend, Sandra Lee, and one of his daughters in the M.S.G. box owned by Cushman & Wakefield, a major real estate firm.

As long as big dollar donors wield disproportionate influence over our politics, we will never truly have a government for and by the people,» said Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY.

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.

Although incumbents tend to have a leg up in fundraising, the Campaign Finance Board's public matching funds program ensures that first - time candidates and those with little access to wealthy donors can run serious campaigns by matching small dollar donations at a 6 - to - 1 ratio up to a certain amount.

Over the past two years, nearly all of his campaign funds have come from thousand - dollar - plus contributions, which seems a far cry from the kind of small - donor - driven operation typified by Sen. Bernie Sanders» campaign in the last Democratic presidential primary.

By contrast, Republican challenger Rob Astorino, who began his campaign earlier this year, has raised the bulk of his $ 4 million from small dollar donors as he struggles to compete with Cuomo on the fundraising battle.

The group itself says it is funded by small - dollar donors raised from «grassroots» contributions.

By the typical benchmarks, Jeffries appears to be the strong favorite, sewing up the majority of union backing and filling his campaign coffers with more than half a million dollars from scores of affluent donors.

She's proud to run a campaign fueled by thousands of small dollar donors from across New York City,» campaign spokesman Angel Vazquez said.

In states with narrowly divided statehouses like Iowa, Colorado, New Hampshire, and Oregon, it was able to help surgically remove threats of gay - marriage bans and build momentum behind same - sex marriage laws and other gay - rights legislation, by injecting millions of dollars from a vast network of donors into select races.

Democrats are on a torrid fundraising pace in the first months of the Donald Trump era, powered by enraged small donors who are plowing millions of dollars worth of online contributions into campaign and committee treasuries.

The New York state legislature is due to adjourn later this week, but there's still no agreement by Assembly Democrats on an education tax credit sought by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that would allow donors a tax credit when they give up to a million dollars for private school scholarships and some public school programs.

De Blasio has drawn criticism from good government groups for his use of the Campaign for one New York, which allowed donors with business before the city to give in amounts far greater than the small dollar limits imposed by the city's campaign finance system.

Litwin was followed on the list of top donors by the health care union 1199 SEIU, hedge fund manager James Simons, New York State United Teachers (which also managed an independent expenditure committee that spent millions of dollars on Senate races) and the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.

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.

Like many government AIDS programs in Africa, Botswana's has been heavily influenced by Western donors, who have spent billions of dollars promoting condoms but have placed little emphasis on advising people to have fewer sexual partners.

As the world's largest food aid donor, the U.S. channels most of its dollars to pay for acute emergencies, a response that, by law, requires shipping crops grown in Iowa or Kansas to needy countries — largely on U.S. ships.

Often lured by middlemen (or drugged, beaten, and otherwise coerced), donors end up with a few hundred to a few thousand dollars and a scar at the waist that has become an emblem of exploitation and human indignity.

The donation, which is contingent on being matched dollar - for - dollar by other donors, will help fund Teach For America's recruitment of members on more than 200 college campuses as well as its eight - week teacher - training program.

Teach for America's major donors include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the Walton Family Foundation, run by the heirs to the Walmart fortune; the Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation, run by the real estate billionaire and Democratic donor; and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, where hedge - fund dollars are used to support causes ranging from criminal justice reform to reducing the costs of public pensions (including those held by veteran teachers).

The privatization agenda was birthed by segregationists in the 1950s, but it was kept alive in subsequent decades by Milton Friedman and sustained by wealthy conservative donors (and the infrastructure built with their dollars).

For his efforts that year, Cuomo was declared a «charter champion,» by a national reform group, and he collected tens of thousands of dollars from pro-charter donors in the run - up to his re-election.

Here's how it works: Donors to these scholarship funds can offset their state tax liability by 70 to 100 cents for every dollar given.

And it's not much when compared to the Kalamazoo Promise, unveiled in 2005, which was funded by anonymous donors and, as a «first - dollar» scholarship, pays for 100 percent of tuition and fees at public colleges and universities in Michigan and can be added on top of Pell Grants.

«Either they'll stand up for neighborhood public schools that provide opportunity for all children, or they'll reward campaign donors by funneling tax dollars to the private school industry.»

Donors could reduce their tax liability by 75 % of their donations up to a full million dollars.

I was able to raise $ 700 dollars that was matched by the Donors Choose program.

This basically means that for a million dollar private donation to a scholarship fund for children attending private and parochial schools, the state will pay $ 750,000 of that by relieving the donor of that amount of his or her tax burden.

Lacy is but one dog, but her bright future is the product of hours of volunteer time, tremendous effort by a foster to heal her body and spirit, and hundreds of dollars given by generous donors to ensure her safety.

Animal shelters are either publicly funded with tax dollars or privately funded by donors concerned with animal welfare.

(The $ 558 million refers to funding from foundations; the remaining funding for the Conspiracy came from individual donors, member dues, investment income, etc.) The Roanoke Times, Winston - Salem Journal, and other papers ran an article that even missed the distinction between revenues and spending as it declared, «A recent study by Drexel University professor Robert Brulle documents almost a billion dollars a year spent by think tanks, foundations and others denying that there's a problem at all.»

Some of the most valued services activists provide the Billionaire's Club includes promulgation of propaganda, which creates an artificial echo chamber; appearance of a faux grassroots movement; access to nimble and transient groups under fiscal sponsorship arrangements; distance / anonymity between donations made by well - known donors and activities of risky activist groups; and above all — the ability to leverage tens of millions of dollars in questionable foreign funding.

The law is written by politicians who are beholding to their donors for millions of dollars necessary under our current laws to be re-elected.