The best example of this effort is the Prevention Project Dunkelfeld in Germany, supported financially by private donation.
Mr Byrne said the months of intensive care and nearly 2, 000kg of fish, the majority of which was donated or funded by public donation, had paid off.
Yet the real pressure points, or at least the most consistent ones, are likelier to be felt among shareholders who may be upset over negative consumer opinion triggered by a donation, or who are themselves directly opposed to a particular donation.
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There will be patterns of the federal government's owning disproportionate pieces of companies headed by big-donation-making CEOs.
Supporters have claimed that the new rules could help increase organs available for donation by as much as a quarter.
Anni Holden, spokeswoman for the diocese of Hereford, said the legal costs of the case to the diocese were being met by an anonymous donation.
And while a generous donation by an investment bank might not make the general public swoon, it can demonstrate a sense of ethical responsibility to its client base.
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Seeking to help donation programs improve and target their outreach campaigns, Anteby and his research team decided to study the individual factors that might influence co-donation by married couples.
As to a donation made by the movie-makers, he says: "That's not a bribe - ridiculous!"
The donation was vetted by experts in the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act before the board approved it in May 2011, Mr. Miller said.
Not only does the taxpayer escape the capital gains tax but the charity benefits by receipt of the entire donation, not just the after-tax amount.
Pledgeit turns the traditional model around by enabling individuals to challenge their friends to do something by offering to make a donation in their honor.
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Totaling in excess of 5, 000 linear feet, UMG's gift is the largest single donation ever received by the Library's audio-visual division and the first major collection of studio master materials ever obtained by the nation's oldest cultural institution.
But now through these so-called paired kidney donation programs, offered by hospitals that specialize in transplantation, people who otherwise would remain ill or on dialysis are getting a new lease on life.
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The 100-ton donation from Britain was taken by Afghan truckers toward the northwestern city of Herat, about 110 kilometers (65 miles) from the Iranian border town of Dogharoun, said Marius de Gaay Fortman, a World Food Programme coordinator.
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The donation is the second biggest announced by the hedge fund tycoon publicly since he became a billionaire.
Check out their wish list or make a donation online to the school, by check or by telephone at 304.253.3095.
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The prince was asked for a donation to the mountain rescue charity by builder Ashley Gill, who found the collection box buried in silt while clearing the Black Bull pub in the town.
To put surplus food to better use, the Environmental Protection Agency is partnering with businesses and organizations in the Food Recovery Challenge, which is helping participants support their communities through food donation and protect their bottom line by reducing waste.
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Donation rates in Britain could be increased by at least 50% over the next five years by improving infrastructure and publicity as Spain did, the report holds.
Aliko Dangote announced the donation this past weekend when he was visited by a UNICEF delegation led by Jean Gough, the UNICEF representative in Nigeria.
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The US agency was recently gifted two Hubble-class spy telescopes by the National Reconnaissance Office, but even with this donation Nasa is short of the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to turn one of them into a dark mission.
Wikipedia is funded by more than a million donors, who give an average donation of less than 30 dollars.
Charities often use message texts as a way to raise money by allowing consumers to use their mobile device to text a donation for storm relief, vaccinating children or other causes.
The government's consultation called on UK banks to look at copying a system pioneered in 1998 by Servibanca in Colombia, which allows customers to make a donation each time they withdraw cash.
It's easy to see the appeal of donation plans to the middlemen: With commissions squeezed by on-line outfits and other low-cost competitors, brokers and insurance agents are casting about for new products to sell.
"Buckets for the Cure" website states, albeit at the very bottom, that individual consumer purchases will not directly increase the total donation -- rather that the money is determined by purchases of buckets by KFC restaurant operators.
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