Sentences with phrase «money donor system»

And she believes it saves money when you take into account what she says is the indirect costs to taxpayers from the present big money donor system.

Not exact matches

One of the lovely quirks of our political finance system is the role of «dark money» spent by organizations that DO N'T have to disclose their donors.

The Campaign Finance Institute found in New York City, the system multiplied the number of donors, and expanded diversity beyond the traditional white, upper middle class and wealthy who normally give money.

In preparation for the launch of the Fair Elections for New York campaign, a series of events in Albany and across the state are being held to call attention to state legislators» reliance on out - of - district campaign contributions — further evidence of the need for a state public campaign finance system that relies on small donors and local money.

The majority of the 25 Moreland Act commissioners say a public campaign finance system modeled on New York City's matching donor system is the only way to curb the undue influence of big money donors in state government.

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.

It allocates public money to candidates who collect small contributions from donors, based on a six - to - one matching system.

Democrats, though, may be reluctant to surrender the significant money - raising advantage they have developed over Republicans, saying that Mr. Obama, by cultivating millions of small donors over the Internet, has built what amounts to a parallel public financing system that is arguably more democratic.

It just adds a little public money to camouflage the same old system of legalized bribery dominated by millionaire and billionaire donors.

«One, is the gerrymandering that occurs allowing lawmakers to draw their own district lines... [two is] a disgraceful campaign finance system that allows them to hit up special interests for ridiculous amounts of money,» said Blair Horner, executive director at the New York Public Interest Research Group, referring to a lack of «pay - to - play» restrictions on campaign donors with government business.

The bill doubled the amount of money private donors could give to political parties, removed the cap on how much political parties could spend to support candidates participating in the public finance system and created a massive loophole by allowing candidates, in this case Malloy, to better coordinate their activities with political parties and other political action committees.

Charter school advocates are pouring money into a fight to convince Massachusetts voters that their already best in the nation school system needs unlimited charter schools — painting itself as a progressive cause when it is funded mostly by the same conservative groups — DFER, New Schools Venture Fund, billionaire donors — behind school privatization everywhere else.

Does your organization have a system in place to inform donors if you are unable to spend their money on what the donor originally intended?

MoneySense created the Charity 100 rating system last year for donors like Langtry, who fear that their money isn't always spent the way it's supposed to be.

To help donors get a better idea for how efficiently charities use their money, we set up a sophisticated rating system that grades charities on how they perform in four different categories: program spending efficiency, fundraising costs, governance and reserve fund size.

Some of the largest, and most well - funded, national organizations that are meant to protect animals and advocate for their causes (organizations that if you are reading this article there is a good chance that you give money to) are spending precious time and resources (i.e. donor dollars) to advocate against a system that's sole purpose is to save animal's lives.