Sentences with phrase «on donor dollars»

Not exact matches

On top of that, a team of Code.org donors have comitting to match dollar - for - dollar every dollar donated.

* Evaluate the percentage of donor dollars spent directly on program expenses.

Last week, I reported on an obscure yet powerful group called Donors Trust, a dark - money ATM funding the conservative movement with hundreds of millions of dollars in mostly anonymous money.

For every dollar donated through the Susan G. Komen page on The Fashionable Gal, the donor will receive an entry to win a prize package of their choice.

Funding appeal from our partners in India They need 40 unique donors and 5000 Dollars by 31st December to secure a permanent place on the GlobalGiving website.

I didn't yet know about peer - to - peer milk sharing groups on Facebook, and we'd only just started to look into getting more donor milk from the milk bank, but we to found it was several dollars per ounce and therefore, prohibitively expensive.

Fundraising pros are even switching high - dollar donors online, often walking them through the process over the phone, which both guarantees that the donation will actually be made and also cuts back on the administrative work needed to process checks.

Bernie Sanders may dominate the small - dollar - donor battlefield on the Democratic side of the presidential race, but he's not the only one growing a list of grassroots supporters.

No longer will the field team knock on the doors of high - dollar donors, for instance, because they will just click a button and eliminate those people from their field universe.

Supporter - driven distributed financial outreach raised a few tens of millions of dollars directly for Obama's campaign, but perhaps more important is that it helped mine individual fundraisers» social connections for new donors, who would then find themselves on the main email list and subject to the kinds of «encouragements» described above.

Here's what I'm getting at: in a Citizens United world, one in which individual wealthy people can poor billions of dollars into our political process at will, digital campaigners (particularly on the Left) feel immense pressure to raise money from small donors.

And even though Gov. Andrew Cuomo is 1) sitting on $ 19.3 million worth of political cash as of mid-July; 2) fresh off hosting one of his biggest fund - raising events of the year — his 55th birthday bash at the Waldorf Astoria for which tickets ranged from $ 1,500 to $ 50,000 a pop; and 3) pushing for campaign finance reform; he's still interested in squeezing some additional dollars out of his donors before reporting his latest haul to the Board on Jan. 15.

It is important to note that under Speaker Sheldon Silver's bill, (1) receiving public funds depends on the candidate's ability to raise money from numerous small donors, so only donations up to $ 250 are matched with taxpayer dollars and that (2) candidates are limited to a maximum amount of public funds ($ 400,000 for Senate candidates and $ 200,000 for Assembly candidates in the general election race).

A bill that passed the state Senate and Assembly this year would have secured Medicaid dollars for mothers who can't nurse their premature infants and choose to feed their babies donor breast milk; the legislation argues it will save New York taxpayers the money Medicaid currently spends on the complications that arise during neonatal care.

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

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.»

Obama's team carefully constructed of a long - term engagement campaign built on a base of repeat small - dollar donors who could also fund its TV advertising.

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.

Stefanik prides herself on raising substantial dollars from small upstate donors, as well as expending substantial quantities of shoe leather (or, in her case, Nike ethylene vinyl acetate) to meet voters face - to - face.

Advocates spent a million dollars on television ads and countless hours lobbying and holding demonstrations in favor of adopting a publicly funded, matching small donor system for statewide races, including the governor and the legislature.

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.

With all that on the table, the speed with which JJR was looking for an upgrade after the bruising 2016 campaign helped foment resentment among many major donors, labor groups and others who spent millions of dollars and thousands of man - hours getting him elected.

Among the litany of fashion designers, attorneys, and activists who appear on Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's list of first quarter - donors is Wendi Murdoch, who contributed $ 2,500 dollars toward Gillibrand's re-election on Feb. 29.

«Our campaign's focus on grassroots, small - dollar donors has powered us to more than 11,000 contributions, and we are now fully funded for a Primary campaign,» said Elana Leopold, finance director for de Blasio's campaign, in a statement.

«He has wasted hundreds of millions of tax dollars on failed «economic development» projects that enriched his donors at the public's expense, and his claim to be an ethical leader has become downright comical.»

Deep - pocketed donors took a pass on attending high - dollar events for Obama, who doesn't have the same enthusiasm quotient he did in 2008.

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.

Cuomo's bill would allow donors to private school scholarship funds and public after school programs to give up to one million dollars, and in exchange receive a credit of $ 750,000 on their taxes.

Much of that slowing momentum appears to be the result of his low - profile in the last month or so as he focuses heavily on courting the big - dollar donors he will need to challenge Clinton for the nomination.

«The Nonprofit Disclosure Provisions require donors to choose between making contributions over the dollar threshold — and thus face public disclosure of their names and addresses on a government website, subjecting them to whatever might result — and limiting or forgoing association with organizations they would otherwise support.

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.

Crain's reported this afternoon that the complaint, in which Southern District U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara accuses Silver of using his political power to line his own pockets with millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks from law firm Goldberg & Iryami, cites an unnamed «Developer 1» who was the largest political donor on the state level since 2005.

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.

Here's where it gets weird: between Bachmann and Miller on the list of top small - dollar fundraisers is House Minority Leader John Boehner, who raised $ 1.4 million — nearly a third of his total haul so far this cycle — from small donors.

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.

Instead, they have built networks that collect millions of dollars from private donors, a move that comes with less restrictions on how the money is spent.

Several years ago Schneiderman donated over $ 100,000.00 from his campaign finance account to charity after Moses Stern, who defrauded Citibank out of millions of dollars, alleged that he was the source of funding for contributions to Schneiderman through the use of straw donors, which is a felony on the federal level.

During his remarks, DeFrancisco attacked Cuomo as a failed leader who has wasted billions of dollars on economic development projects that benefitted his campaign donors and furthered his own political agenda.

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.

October 12th, 2017 / / A generous donor has pledged to match dollar - for - dollar until we meet our our $ 175,000 goal on IndieGoGo!

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.

A Los Angeles school board race that attracted millions of dollars from well - heeled donors has shone a spotlight on the nation's largest collection of charter schools.

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.

The city also benefited from Mr. Klein's role as a national symbol of school reform, Ms. Tisch said, with private donors giving millions of dollars to help create new projects and experiments, like teacher performance bonuses and cash rewards for students who did well on exams.

The approach we used calculates the absolute bare minimum dollar values for each portion of the budget, based on Rocketship's budget breakdown and its reporting of top donors and the amount categories they fell into.

Of course, every charity needs to spend money on overhead costs — it's crucial to keep the lights on, buy office supplies and pay salaries — but most donors will want the majority of their dollars to go directly to the cause, whether it's feed - ing children, finding a cure for a disease, or supporting the environment.

Because let's face it, most donors would prefer their dollars go to lean organizations that concentrate on their cause, rather than bloated institutions that soak up donations to support their own operation.