Sentences with phrase «money as a donation»

Although primarily most people back projects in the hope that they will be successful, there may be some people that give money as a donation just to see it succeed, as they feel that they could use the idea in the future.

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In addition to donations from Bravo personality Andy Cohen, advertising pro Donny Deutsch, radio DJ Elvis Duran, and a host of private citizens, Frankel received money and supplies from Yieldstreet, Univision, Feeding America, and City Harvest, as well as friends and strangers.

Toyota will donate money and match dealer donations to organizations such as the St. Bernard Project and the American Red Cross.

For instance, on his blog Baseline Scenario, University of Connecticut law professor James Kwak makes many of the same points as Quittner — the Zuckerberg - Chan donation isn't really a donation at all but a newly formed LLC that will have significant tax benefits for the couple, who will retain almost complete control over their money.

Currently, the money raised on sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo is characterized as donations (for which donors are often offered rewards and opportunities to preorder products).

Once a website has joined a tech network, it can quickly start earning money through advertising, donations, or content farms such as Taboola that share ad revenues with websites that distribute their articles.

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.

As for donations of monies to charities, why wouldn't a person just set up a trust fund that paid the charity for the next 100 years or so?

VICTORIA — After more than a century of unlimited donations, corporate cronyism and declining public faith in institutions, Big Money was finally banished from B.C. provincial and municipal elections today as bills 3 and 15 officially became law.

The sensible way to fund the social good of higher education is pay - as - you - go: with affordable tuition, donations and government money.

[1][2] Fundraising Fundraising or fund raising (also known as «development») is the process of soliciting and gathering voluntary contributions of money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies (see also crowd funding).

It and other dark money groups can serve as conduits for anonymous donations from corporations and other wealthy special interests to flood elections, making it particularly dangerous to democracy.

If the money was connected to Trump's ongoing presidential campaign, then it may count as an in - kind campaign contribution by Cohen — one that apparently went unreported to the Federal Election Commission and exceeded the legal limit for individual donations under federal law.

BC is one of few provinces with no limit on corporate donations (as is Saskatchewan, whose leading political party appears to have benefitted handsomely from vast sums of money from Alberta - based fossil fuel corporations over the last decade).

I read a while back that UK Catholics were being asked for donations to finance the trip, so I figured that at least * that * money wouldn't go to the Church as regular «Sunday» donations; but whatever part of it that the UK has to pop for is, I suppose, an issue between the populace and their gov «t.

However, this money is comprised by the donations of many non-governmental organizations such as World Vision (large grants from the federal government) and the Red Cross accu - mulated from different parts of the globe through various campaigns in support of Haiti.

There are a lot of people out there who pass themselves off as men of God, but who are really just trying to take control and take your money (which call a donation or a tithe).

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.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

In his car, Eh Wah had the money from ticket, CD and merch sales, as well as donations.

@Micheal, Chapel Hill, yes and its you religious hypocritical righties that proclaim one thing but do another.It's your Billy Graham who railed against the Mormon cult of Romneys but just recently blessed his campaign and took down the site against Mormonism.Just how much was placed in Grahams hand as a donation to change his mind and remember you religious, sanctumonious ones are the ones wanting everything to help your fellow brethren taken away remember in ACA, Medicaid, Medicare, SocialSecurity, anything to help the people of this proud country.It all comes down to money doesn't it hypocrites hidden behind the smokescreen of religion, just take your snakeoil mentality somewhere else, its not wanted or needed here!!

As he started making more money and his financial well - being seemed secure, his donations rose dramatically.

100 % of money raised, as well as private donations and grants received from foundations goes directly to the families, not to overhead.»

But I manage to get to the Fitness Center a few times a week for yoga classes, so my money isn't as you say, a «donation.»

But how can giving money to charity in yearly donations as well as refusing paid sponsors to support a charity be a bad thing?

Of course the site is written as a labour of love, but it does cost money to maintain it, and we've never asked for donations — so buying the book via the links above would be a nice gesture.

The independent foundation, to be incorporated as a not - for - profit organization, would solicit, receive, hold, invest and manage gifts and donations of money, property and services to the library district, which serves Wheeling and parts of Buffalo Grove and Prospect Heights.

The charity was in need of money to alleviate a desperate situation but would not accept the donation because it refused to be seen as complicit with a company as immoral as Nestle, or to give such an odious corporation any good publicity.

Some of the money has come from corporate or private donations, as well as aldermanic and state contributions.

The Conservatives received twice as much money in donations as Labour did in the last three months of 2008.

Also, as online donations bring a larger group of small donors into the process, they're going to demand that their money be well spent if campaigns want more of it.

With the Roberts Supreme Court already apparently reconsidering past precedents with an eye toward treating corporate and union donations as free speech, a federal appeals court has now ruled on behalf of Emily's List that nonprofits can use functionally unbounded «soft money» to finance their election - year activities.

As Obama's campaign showed in 2008, if you have enough people on your list, aggregating their individual small donations can add up to real money real quick.

Once the transaction is processed, the money passes to the campaign's bank account, either immediately as a single transfer or periodically as donations add up.

We can expect this model to affect politics as well: ActBlue, for example, has experimented with what it calls ActBlue Express, which lets you can actually tweet your donation and have the money transferred from your credit card to the campaign or organization's account using a specific tweet syntax.

This creates a puzzle for academics: the ambiguity about whether donations are rewards or incentives — as well as the sheer multitude of factors that affect politicians» decisions — has led to inconclusive evidence about the influence of money in debates like this.

A reform group is taking a new approach to trying to close a loophole in the state's campaign finance laws, as years long attempts to crack down on what's known as «dark money» donations have failed.

During Osborne's time as Chancellor of the Exchequer he regularly pledged Treasury money to Standard charitable campaigns, such as his offer in 2015 to match readers» donations by up to # 1.5 million to the Standard's Great Ormond Street Hospital appeal.

In the case of the $ 99,118 in donations Diaz received, the money was tied to a comparatively small outfit, MJM Construction — not exactly as bold - faced a firm as those that made eye - brow - raising cameos in corruption trials of former elected officials like Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver.

Lamont, who is investing his own money in his campaign as well as accepting donations, has twice before run for statewide office.

Party committees have a much easier time receiving donations under election law than regular committees: They can receive up to $ 109,600 per donor, and unlimited amounts as long as the money doesn't go toward explicitly telling somebody to vote for or against a candidate.

Scott Stringer, the comptroller and another potential primary contender, received tens of thousands of dollars in real estate donations, including money bundled by employee of Durst Organization and Two Trees, while serving as borough president and having a vote in the Uniformed Land Use Review Procedure that was vital to getting their projects passed.

In May 1998, the then Chairman of the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee, former Conservative Cabinet Minister Lord Pym, told a House of Commons Select Committee that the committee considered a political donation a point in a nominee's favour as it indicated involvement in public life, and that the nominee had «put their money where his mouth is».

And, by extension, online donations give small donors a much larger voice than they've had in the past, since a distributed army of excited activists can yield as much money as quite a few $ 1000 - per - plate dinner donors.

The investigators also noted that as with donations to Campaign for One New York, much of the money contributed wound up in the pockets of key de Blasio political consultants like BerlinRosen and AKPD Message and Media, who the Senate candidates were required to hire.

Labour is expecting to spend less than half as much as the Tories on the general election campaign amid a drive for money donations from its 500,000 members.

Matt has also repeatedly denounced the other candidates for being corporate - funded and, as a Green, won't take corporate money donations.

Finance has consistently been one of the biggest talking points from early on with Latimer painting Killian as the big money candidate and championing his larger number of small donations.

Meanwhile, the flow of political donations from centenarian Leonard Litwin's Glenwood slowed to a trickle following the arrests in Albany, and the real estate industry as a whole is falling behind in spending as hedge funds pump money into lobbying for education reform.

Meanwhile, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School plans to push for a system of public funds to match smaller donations as a way to limit the influence of big money donors in campaign fundraising.