Sentences with phrase «small donations to fund»

The Reform Party is always looking for small donations to fund our operation.

Not exact matches

Through private funding and the small donations of supporters, we will give away 365 books this year (for FREE) and hope to double that number next year.

The Daily Beast described Luckey as «funding Trump's meme machine» in 2016, which is an apparent overstatement since the donation was supposedly a fairly small $ 10,000, and Nimble America's only clear action was putting up a «Too Big To Jail» billboard.

If you want to make a $ 500 contribution to your local organization instead of having to send, a few shares of a particular stock, you fund a donor advised fund and now you can very easily make some of these smaller donations to these charities.

Donation - based crowdfunding allows individuals, entrepreneurs and small businesses to set a goal for funding.

«In order to participate in the cookie swap, each blogger would make a small donation to «Cookies for Kids» Cancer,» which raises funds for pediatric cancer research.

US platforms such as IndieGoGo, GiveForward and KickStarter have helped artists, musicians and others raise tens of millions of dollars, mostly in small donations from large numbers of individuals, to enable them to make music videos, write books, fund travel and a host of other projects.

The bus tycoon made good on his promise to match small donations to the SNP, giving a significant boost to the «yes» campaign's funding which had trailed the «no» camp.

Public financing reforms mitigate thisfundraising disadvantage by making it possible to put together an adequately financed campaignusing small donations, supplemented by public funds.»

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).

Norden emphasized that matching small donations with public funds in New York City has made candidacies independent of political machines and unbeholden to special interest donors possible.

If reform legislation can be passed that allows small donations to be matched with public funds, then candidates would become less dependent on big donors and more so on their constituents.

In the 2014 State of State handbook which accompanied the speech, the governor detailed these as well as other reform initiatives, emphasizing that matching small donations with public funds would give «voice to small donors» and «help enable a diverse pool of candidates with substantial grassroots support, but little access to large donors, to run competitive campaigns.»

Although the IDC has introduced wide - ranging reform legislation — which includes public matching funds for small donations — and held public hearings on the matter, they've refused to bring the bill to a vote without approval from the Senate Republicans.

But while supporters of state funding believe it to be a panacea to end big donations, reduce the risk of corruption and support smaller parties, the fact that state funding is being given serious consideration actually demonstrates how political parties have not done enough to broaden their memberships and attract voluntary support from the public.

Healy, the former Republican chairman, blamed the glut of candidates on the state's public campaign financing system, where candidates collect $ 250,000 in small - dollar donations to receive millions in taxpayer - funded election grants.

They would like the state to adopt New York City's system of government funded matching grants for candidates, who collect small donations for individual donors.

As part of the matching funds program, NYC provides candidates that can raise enough small donations from constituents in their district with $ 6 for every $ 1 raised per donation up to $ 175.

Cooper will argue that it is unprecedented for a government to abuse its small majority in the Commons to try to cripple an opposition party through partisan measures to cut its funding, while doing nothing to provide transparency over corporate donations to the Tories.

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.

Through financing from the Citizens» Election Fund, candidates that obtain the required number of small donations can receive a lump sum to fund their campaFund, candidates that obtain the required number of small donations can receive a lump sum to fund their campafund their campaign.

To qualify for CEP funds, candidates must raise a certain amount of money in small donations — $ 15,000 for state senators, $ 5,000 for representatives.

Although incumbents tend to have a leg up in fundraising, the Campaign Finance Board's public matching funds program ensures that first - time candidates and those with little access to wealthy donors can run serious campaigns by matching small dollar donations at a 6 - to - 1 ratio up to a certain amount.

Under the rules, a candidate must first collect small donations from at least 2000 donors, for a total of $ 200,000 in order to qualify for public funds that would total six times the amount of money that he raised.

The commission also singled out matching small private donations with public funds for election campaigns as an effective strategy to generate greater citizen participation.

In response to the inadequacy of the current system to address pay - to - play politics, the commission recommended several reforms including public funding to match small donations.

The proposals to be considered include an increase in state funding for political parties, with the taxpayer matching small donations to encourage the parties to seek new members and small - scale donations, rather than relying on individuals giving vast sums.

Fundraising in the form of small - dollar donations is critical for candidates planning to participate in the state's Citizens» Election Program, which offers millions in taxpayer - funded election grants to gubernatorial candidates who raise at least $ 250,000 in qualified contributions.

Democrats in the Senate and Assembly support a system where small donations are multiplied with public funds, but Republicans have attacked this idea, citing some officials who abused the system and an ideological aversion to using taxpayer funds to pay for elections.

We certainly hope her election will push state lawmakers to support public campaign financing — especially a Clean Money Clean Election approach where funds are provided based on obtaining a small number of donations (as opposed to the 6 to 1 matching approach used in NYC).

More than half of the contributions were small donations of $ 250 or less, with about $ 50,000 eligible to be matched by the city's public matching funds program, the campaign reported.

By rejecting corporate money and funding his campaign solely with the help of small individual donations, Hawkins holds himself fully accountable to the middle - and working - class people of New York.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has already committed himself to reform; he proposed that the state adopt a system similar to that of New York City, where small donations are matched with public funds.

Many sources do not agree that the Obama campaign was funded by small donations, and have criticised the lack of transparency which masked the hugely important role of the massive donations from big corporations (eg the financial sector gave more to Obama than to his opponents).

Labour wants a small increase in state funding, stringent caps on spending and voluntary caps to be placed on donations by each party, which can reflect historic links with trade unions.

Indeed, the project took 20 years to complete, fueled by the Environmental Protection Fund as well as small grants secured by local legislators as well as private donations.

A matching fund for state offices could be like that in New York City, where candidates must raise a lot of small donations to qualify for a larger pool of matching tax dollars, with low ceilings on overall spending.

But smaller political funds would also make less cash available to union leaders to make, at their discretion, the separate party political donations on which Labour increasingly depends.

She also hit Cuomo for his failure to raise funds from small donors, saying just 0.1 % of his donations had come from them.

Antonacci announced over the summer that he would attempt to take advantage of a pilot program for public funding of campaigns, but that effort ran aground after he failed to run the prerequisite $ 200,000 in small donations ($ 10 to $ 175) from 2,000 donors.

Clutching her son's medical records, she asked each passenger for a small donation to help fund his treatment, which she couldn't afford.

The flow of private donations to largely small districts serving wealthy parents will continue despite the implementation of the Local Control Funding Formula championed by Gov. Jerry Brown and approved by the Legislature in June.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

Easily the most coveted approaches to crowded dreams of success are various takes on funding built on the shared small donations of the crowd.

The idea is to gather a substantial number of people to help you fund your project through many small donations.

Used clothing and small household item donations are used to generate funds to support the Fixin'to Save program.

I'm proud to say Goodnewsforpets.com did our small part in participating in these endeavors by donating space on this site to getting the word out about donations, relief efforts, and with direct donations to the Texas Veterinary Medical Foundation Fear Free Relief fund, the ASPCA, the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF), the AKC Reunite Challenge Grant via Assisi Animal Health, and the American Red Cross.

All dog rehoming centres in the UK are either charities or voluntary and have no funding other than donations, therefore even if you are not in a position to offer a home a small donation will be gratefully received.

Little White Dog Rescue is a 501c3 organization that relies solely on donations to fund our mission to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home small dogs.

With a small donation to our Natural Disaster Emergency Fund, we will more efficiently be able to help those in disaster areas.