Sentences with phrase «from local donors»

Sales reps served as «greeters» at the featured homes and collected items for a silent auction from local donors.

You will get support from national foundations and a little bit from the government, but the greatest amount will come from local donors, so you have to make sure they understand the positive impact that the museum has on the city, the region and its residents.

Funding Although local and state per - pupil funding, with some federal help, covers the majority of KIPP's costs, KIPP regions raise additional funds from local donors and foundations.

These grants have leveraged an additional $ 750,000 in matching funds from local donors and other sources, for a total of $ 1.5 million in new scholarship support for over 200 undocumented students.

To fund KIPP's expansion and ensure the sustainability of KIPP schools, KIPP regions raise additional funding from local donors and foundations.

He said the percentage of campaign cash coming from local donors is now smaller because PACs tend to write bigger checks.

Not exact matches

This increased capacity offers local food banks and food recovery organizations the ability to accept more food from donors, be it from Walmart or any other organization including other retailers that has good food to donate.

This increased capacity offers local food banks the ability to accept more food from donors, be it from Walmart or any other organization including other retailers that has good food to donate.

Each country would negotiate a long - term, mutually binding compact to integrate domestic and international action, and on that basis receive an «investment entitlement» from one consolidated pot of money channeled through independent local foundations with cross-country representation of donors and recipients.

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.

But Anthony Casale, a special advisor to NY GOP chairman Ed Cox, said Long would attract funds from local and national donors seeking to block Schumer from becoming the next Senate Democratic leader.

AAN may have carried out «grassroots organizing,» but a crucial section of the network's tax return shows the money for that organizing didn't come from grassroots sources such as local activists or small dollar donors.

Meloni, meanwhile, received donations from 256 donors, the bulk of whom are based in the New York City and local donations accounted for $ 40,318 of the $ 44,038 he's raised.

It's been reported that in that same year, donors with LLC in their names gave more than $ 20 million to state and local campaigns — $ 15 million of which came from donations exceeding the $ 5,000 corporate donor limit.

New York State caps individual donations to candidates running for local office using a formula based on the number of registered voters in a given district, which varies slightly from year to year — but leaves the single donor ceiling around $ 16,000 in a Republican primary for Nassau County executive, and $ 48,000 for the general election.

Among the upstate town's major political donors are Joseph and Esther Markowitz, who run a local real estate company and regularly write four - figure checks to certain candidates from New York City.

Democratic Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone got late infusions totaling $ 65,000 from two well - known donors to Republicans — former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and local hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer, who usually funds conservative candidates and causes.

Most people with a passing knowledge of Monroe County politics believe Alesi, who was already on the outs with local GOP and Conservative leaders for his (now dropped) lawsuit against two constituents whose property he injured himself on while trespassing, took a calculated risk here in hopes that would land himself some newfound donors — and voters — from the LGBT community in 2012.

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.

Gibson brought in receipts from unions, such as the police and fire locals, as well as racing interests, Crowley Maritime, and traditional Republican donors such as John Rood and John Baker.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, who faces Republican challenger James O'Connor at the polls tomorrow, got late infusions totaling $ 65,000 from two well - known donors to Republicans — former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and local hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer, who usually funds conservative candidates and causes.

Now we know what it takes for Gov. Cuomo to sacrifice from his campaign war chest: a parade of other top local pols letting go of gifts from a donor suddenly in the news for decades of alleged sexual harassment.

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

The Collins Victory Fund raised 96 percent of its money from individuals, and its list of donors reads like a who's who of top local Republicans.

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.

Consent rates were highest among potential donors under the age of 55, patients of white race, and when the referral from the local hospital was made in a «timely» manner.

Websites that let teachers post their classroom «wish lists» for donors to fulfill have been around for more than a decade, but now one of those sites — Digital Wish — has added a new fundraising feature that could help schools raise support from their local communities.

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.

Some candidates received money from both of the two local PACs as well as additional funds from the individual donors who already contributed to PEFNC PAC.

The funding overshadowed large local contributions from traditional donors Eli Broad and A. Jerrold Perenchio, who have long sought to counteract the influence of the teachers union.

Bella's transfusions were swiftly performed with blood from the hospital's local canine donor base.

* And lots of wet kisses to our Angel Dogmobile Donors who donated their SUV to help us rescue more dogs from the local shelters and transport them to our offsite adoptions!

Taking care of these animals requires incredible expense and the SPCA receives assistance from local organizations and individual donors.

We get great feedback from our donors about wanting to support both the local and national program, so I think that speaks volumes.

BCSPCA remains a private non-profit local organization, raising our own funds from private donors without the help of taxes.

The event is the group's annual fundraiser to gather donations and support from younger donors, and many local Atlanta restaurants donate small bites at the event.

Among May's funding organizations and partners include The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Mondriaan Fund, Prospect New Orleans, The Joan Mitchell Center, many local and national foundations, and numerous individual donors from around the world.

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.

Donors can choose from large organizations like those or they also have the option of choosing a favorite local charity to support with their donations.

The guide is also a useful resource for other stakeholders, including staff from local, district and national government offices, the United Nations, donors, as well as social and natural scientists.

REDD + has stimulated almost every dimension of forest activity: real - time satellite tracking of global forest loss; local communities using handheld data devices; long - simmering disputes over forest ownership and use; methods for benefit sharing; nested accounting to meld project and national approaches; the role of women in forest stewardship; the place for certification and reduced impact logging; enticements of billions from donors; open discussion of illegal timber trade and corruption; public platforms for indigenous groups to command large audiences, and many more... the exponential interest in REDD + has been tremendous.

In this feature article, Colleen du Toit and Gerald Kraak from the Atlantic Philanthropies propose co-operation between northern donors and local companies to enhance the impact of mutual investments...

Along the way, home visiting efforts have attracted support from private donors and local, state and federal governments because the research shows home visiting helps parents and improves outcomes for children, especially for the most vulnerable families.

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.

Property owners could get up to an additional $ 400 a month in rent from an anonymous donor when they open their spaces to promising local entrepreneurs.