Sentences with phrase «much as a donation»

I don't think buying special cash items are as much as a donation as you think.

Not exact matches

Further, many people see celebrity donations as being sufficient and don't feel they need to contribute as much if it's already being covered by someone who is successful.

In the 2012 election cycle, Mitt Romney reaped nearly three times as much of Wall Street donations as President Barack Obama.

But a sampling of deal documents suggests it took easements and land donations responsible for as much as $ 1 billion in write - offs in 2017.

However, you might choose to make a donation — from as little as $ 5 to as much as you'd like.

And just as important, she will likely put forward a much needed and long - overdue campaign donation reform plan, to cut corporate and union donations out of the wild West that is the current campaign territory.

The writers (the story carries no byline) claim «donations from the faithful are thought to have declined by as much as 20 \ %» and that «the scandals probably played a part in this».

It comes off as a scam as a way to take donations and there is no way to tell how much of the donations reach a cause or who the donations are going to.

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

@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!!

But as the announcers pointed out, not much can be done besides awareness and donations since it remains difficult for anyone to get back into Houston right now.

Captain Tatiana Cutts features in the video, which you can watch below, calling for supporters to back the club with as little or as much a donation as people can afford.

Milk Matters welcomes regular small donations of breastmilk just as much as larger quantities.

There are many ways to become involved with Carry the Future as we are continually running drives, planning our next distribution phases, collecting donations for much needed aid and mobilizing to deliver the carriers, baby beds and diapers to families in need.

For our State Competition it's not the amount of the donation that matters so much as the total number of contributors.

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

Clinton's 2016 campaign and the DNC allegedly used state chapters as straw men to launder as much as $ 84 million in an effort to circumvent campaign donation limits, and the FEC ignored complaints exposing the practice, a new lawsuit claims.

Asked about the middle - man in an alleged bribery scandal — Jona Rechnitz — who also made six - figure donations to the mayor's political efforts, Hizzoner said his campaign team had vetted him as much as possible.

Obama's fundraising over the same period relied on plenty of big - dollar donors as well, but even then his campaign noted the advantage that a much larger base of small - dollar donors gave them: «Obama spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki repeated the campaign's emphasis on the 98 percent of its donations that were $ 250 or less — meaning that those donors are under the limit and can continue to contribute.»

It would be naïve to expect a stronger statement from Labour condemning the role donations play in British politics; after all, Labour receives almost as much in donations as the Conservatives.

The match would be six times as much as the original, so a $ 100 donation would turn into $ 700.

And Nixon's pledge to refuse corporate donations doesn't actually mean as much in New York as it does on the federal level, because of New York's lax campaign finance laws, said Alex Camarda, senior policy adviser at Reinvent Albany.

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.

During the same time period, he received $ 4.4 million in donations from political action committees, $ 25.5 million in donations from individuals and $ 17.74 million in donations from committees, unions and limited liability companies, nearly five times as much as he received from corporations.

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.

None of the donations was especially large by New York standards, so it's less about the prominence of the individuals within the support structure of a major party as much as an indication of how few people are willing to donate to a party that has not won an election for statewide office since 2002.

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.

Finances were, as always, carefully managed, but the digital team had raised ten times as much in small donations from e-mails than the same period before the last election.

Much of that came in the form of smaller donations from individuals, as well as bigger funds from the many unions and organizations that have endorsed Rivera over the last month or so (like 1199 SEIU, the Committee of Interns and Residents, and a number of other labor groups.)

Yes, damage has been done by the sight of Labour candidates refusing donations from the party's last election - winning prime minister, but nowhere near as much damage as the impact of Blair's actions since leaving office.

Still, the reason why critics are right to say Trump should release his taxes — that voters should be able to gauge his tax bill and charitable donations, and that the returns might expose financial conflicts of interest — apply as much to City Hall as to the White House.

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.

And in the first month of the contest he amassed, according to the Electoral Commission, # 185,265 in donations from major backers - more than six times as much as his nearest rival (Ed Balls raised # 28,419).

As Vance's campaign contributions have come under scrutiny, state Assemblyman Dan Quart said he's introducing a bill to reign in how much New York prosecutors can accept in donations from defense attorneys.

The Clinton Foundation told DailyMail.com it will not return as much as $ 250,000 in donations from Harvey Weinstein, saying the money had already been spent on the organization's programs and used for charitable purposes.

As Unison's continued high levels of donations to Labour shows, being a bit more transparent doesn't hurt too much.

That's when donations are matched by public funds in order to level the playing field for candidates who may not have as much money as their opponents.

The donations were made to county party committees, including in Putnam and Ulster Counties in the Hudson Valley, where as much as over $ 100,000 can be donated by a single entity.

I would say mine because as part of our favors we made a donation to a much - needed LGBT Cause, The Trevor Project — her wedding was just an election stunt for her mayoral campaign to seek support from the LGBT Community.»

The New York Public Interest Research Group says the tobacco industry spent as much on lobbying expenses and political donations in New York in the first half of 2013 ($ 3.6 million) as it spent in the entire 24 months of 2011 ($ 1.8 million) and 2012 ($ 1.7 million) combined.

The investigators acknowledged the paradox of their findings — that, while sperm (and egg) donation necessarily imply the genetic detachment of the child from one of its parents, couples themselves seem determined to do as much as possible to ensure genetic bonds between their children.

«So doing something physically demanding and asking a small group of friends for their support is much more effective than relying on donations from lots of people for what would be perceived as a relatively less exerting activity.»

A more likely scenario could be an effort to reform the tax code to offer tax credits for donations to organizations that provide scholarships to low - income students — an approach that could serve much the same purpose as school vouchers but would not require the creation of a new direct - spending program.

Notwithstanding this, the cost of charitable giving in functional terms is much greater as income diminishes, and so to reward the donations of lower - income taxpayers less than the donations of higher income taxpayers seems perverse.

Because donations are credited, dollar - for - dollar, against state tax obligations, they are as much gifts from the state as they are donations from private individuals.

There is much in the book that is of value, such as the chapter devoted to the humiliations of every day life for the Palestinians under Israeli occupation, the confiscation of farm produce, unfair competition from Israeli goods, the withholding of foreign donations, leveling of houses without legal recourse, and so on and so forth; and the fact does remain that Israel is in violation of key U.N. resolutions.

That's because at that time, approximately 170,000 taxpayers were allegedly dodging tax by claiming as much as $ 5 billion in dubious donations to not - so - legitimate charitable organizations.

1100 of this is in a donation of salable hours rather than cash, but helpfully you have a number right there as to how much someone is willing to pay for these hours so the math is still doable.

Many families have been forced to surrender beloved pets to shelters, yet shelters report that donations are down by as much as 30 %.