Sentences with phrase «than donation after»

For people in less advanced countries with poor infrastructure, I wonder there is nothing we can do rather than donation after tragedy?

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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 level of spending by some candidates in the last municipal election was described as «insane» by Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, after some Calgary city council candidates raised more than $ 270,000 largely through corporate donations.

Before that tragedy SurfAid had been a 10 - person operation, but after the tsunami the group received six - figure donations from Billabong, Quiksilver and Burton, and its staff was increased to more than 70.

Last month, Peter Watt resigned as general secretary after admitting he had failed to properly report Mr Abrahams as the true source of more than # 650,000 in donations, which had been channelled through intermediaries.

Sanders reached the million - donation mark far faster than Obama eight years ago, a sign both of his supporters» enthusiasm and of the greater willingness of grassroots Democrats to open their wallets after years of experience of giving to candidates.

Less than a year after the Albright - Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo received the largest single financial donation in its history, officials announced that it has now received its largest single donation of art: The vast and lucrative estate of pop artist and local favorite Marisol, who died last April.

State Assemblywoman Ann - Margaret Carrozza (D - Bayside) said the struggling economy has not prevented residents in her district from being generous after a Veterans Day gift drive she organizes annually brought in more donations during the past few months than it had the past few years.

A spokesman for de Blasio's campaign said it would return more than $ 32,000 in contributions, after DNAinfo reported exclusively on several unusual donations.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.) plans to keep more than half of the campaign donations he received from Democratic donor and Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein after it was revealed last week that he had settled sexual harassment claims with at least eight different women.

After Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick (R) spent $ 17,000 on polling for Fallon's campaign, Estes said in a televised debate, «The donation in kind from Dan Patrick amounts to nothing more than a bribe to hire a yes man in the Texas Senate, a puppet.

The new Joint Commission on Public Ethics rules say donations of more than $ 5000 made after July 1 of this year will have to be disclosed in reports due to the commission starting next year.

The donation came less than two months after workers at certain busing companies, including one owned by Mr. Lodde's firm, had gotten an unprecedented windfall from New York City government: a $ 42 million grant pushed through by Mayor Bill de Blasio to raise wages at low - paying private bus companies with city contracts.

Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy today responded to some of the criticism he received this week after we first reported that he was using his private campaign donations for $ 1,900 a month apartment when he's Albany, saying it's better than using taxpayer money.

The Green Party, which obtained its ballot line in 2010 after Howie Hawkins received more than 50,000 votes in his unsuccessful run for governor, does not cross-endorse candidates because the two major parties accept corporate donations....

Rather than backdate transparency rules to 2014 — which would reveal the source of the # 435,000 DUP cash — Brokenshire announced earlier this year that the change, which will be made through secondary legislation, would only apply to donations and loans received after 1st July 2017.

These donations were made less than a week after the governor vetoed a bill leaders of the Hasidic village described as restricting its development.

Liu is aware of Hsu's problematic record — in 2008, he returned donations collected by Hsu after the conviction — but he didn't return everything, even from donors who were clearly determined to be less - than - aboveboard.

Women younger than 40, those using donor oocytes and those with male partner - related infertility that was treated with either intracytoplasmic sperm injection or sperm donation achieved live birth rates after five or six cycles, taking a median two years of trying, which were similar to rates in couples who were trying to conceive and were not using any form of treatment after an average of one year.

After raising more than $ 1 million from Silicon Valley philanthropists to get Watsi off the ground, the team behind the project is now supported by optional tips from the site's users, which account for 8 per cent of all donations.

After receiving pledges totaling more than its goal of $ 100 million by a year - end deadline, the Ecuadorian government last week announced that it would move forward with the so - called Yasuni ITT Initiative, an innovative plan to leave untapped more than 900 million barrels of crude oil beneath a pristine Amazonian nature reserve, in exchange for annual international donations.

So treatments had to occur fewer than 6 hours after «donations» had been collected.

Fifty - five years after first charging a $ 1 donation entry fee, the concours has raised more than $ 20 million for charity, $ 1.9 million of it in 2014 alone.

Cory Doctorow and his publisher recently made a donation of more than 200 copies of one of his titles, Little Brother, after a Florida school principal pulled the plug on a summer reading program that focused on that book.

After all, what garners more donations than a photo of poor little Fluffy with a skin condition or a massive conspicuous tumor?

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Double Fine needs to raise $ 400,000 over the next thirty - three days in order for the game to start development, so you'd better hurry if you want to... oh, wait, sorry; after less than a day of collecting donations, the goal has already been met.

Mr. Bloomberg, who has given $ 1.1 billion to his alma mater, more than any living donor has given to any educational institution, recalled that he had been able to afford only a $ 5 donation one year after graduation.

Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP decided to forgo its usual glitzy party with more than 2,000 guests after it learned that the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank had recently seen a 50 - per - cent jump in demand, but a decrease in donations and volunteers.

In this case, the sentencing judge, after presumably satisfying herself that the accused had the ability to pay the charitable donations, ordered a conditional discharge and charitable donations rather than a conviction and payment of a fine.

After initiating a fund - raising campaign to Rebuild Japan, we received more than $ 400,000 in donations from AREAA members, real estate associations, sponsors and friends.