There will be patterns of the federal government's owning disproportionate pieces of companies headed by big-donation-making CEOs.
But this year's turn to private money seems in line with other donation-based programs that have caught on elsewhere.
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Ridesharing has grown quickly, particularly in San Francisco, as mobile apps with donation-based fee systems have become popular.
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The mostly donation-funded organization is the one behind banning sodas, putting fat and calories on menus, and warning notices on alcoholic beverages.
This is partly due to the donation-friendly admissions preferences still given to athletes and children of alumni, which he concludes should be abolished.
Crowdfunder offers a blend of donation-based and investment crowdfunding from individuals and angel investors, and was a leading participant in the JOBS Act legislation.
Rockethub powers donation-based funding for a wide variety of creative projects.
Crowdrise is a place for donation-based funding for Causes and Charity.
Guests pay an agreed donation - often in advance to cover "no shows" - providing the artists with a guaranteed income, often more generous than their share from a larger commercial event.
"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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Also, consider adding a provision to give a specific person--say a friend or relative--visitation rights if you're hospitalized. (Otherwise, hospitals might impose restrictive visitation policies.) You may also want to spell out your wishes about organ donation--for example, state if you want your agent to keep you on life support while waiting for a donee match.
The council rightly does not oppose such a system on ethical grounds, because it would leave the choice of donation or non-donation entirely in the hands of individuals and their families, as it is now.
Two cadavers are better than one in this regard, so Anteby was encouraged when several donation program directors mentioned the co-donation phenomenon among married couples.
And it would take away the need for people to find time to register their details on the organ donation register - even if they would be willing donors.
At present, the family have a veto even if an individual has "opted in" and signed the Organ Donation Register - a fact that surprised many taking part in the recent research study into the issue.
While 80% of donors say they watch the show, donations on a whole rose just less than 1% since the show began, but that's not bad considering most charities struggled with massive donation drop-offs after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001--unless you were a Sept. 11-related charity.
As chief executive of Vehicle Donation to Any Charity, which operates a car-donation program based in Point Richmond, Calif.
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Overall, almost 170, 000 alumni made a donation in 2011-12, the research says, up 5% from the year before.
WHO, which is starting, in collaboration with Merck and SmithKline Beecham, a massive drug-donation programme for the disease.
Although more than two-thirds of Britons say they would be willing to become donors, only a quarter have signed up on the Organ-Donation Register.
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.
The government has proposed switching to a system of "presumed consent" for donation after death - meaning everyone would be regarded as a potential donor unless they had specifically opted out.
Rounding out the billion-dollar-donation club is Feeding America.
In 1843 the ABS sold the first-ever charitable gift annuity, a now-popular fundraising device in which a person makes a donation to a tax-exempt entity and gets back a specified annual return for life.
This might be seen as ironic in the light of western interest in such things as drug-donation programmes (in which drug companies give away their products in countries which cannot afford to buy them) and vaccine-purchase funds (which guarantee sales to firms that come up with effective new vaccines for poor-world diseases).
The record-breaking donation meant Oxford could abolish an increase in tuition fees for students from low-income families.
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The Welsh Government has commissioned Beaufort Research to carry out a qualitative survey of people's attitudes to an opt-out system of organ donation which comes to some striking - and perhaps counterintuitive - conclusions about this very issue.
She had an unexpected donor to one of her causes this year: The U.K.'s Daily Mail published an apology--and made a donation to a charity of Safra's choice--after running a libelous article suggesting she'd been involved in her husband's death.
But what exactly does "indication" mean in the context of an opt-out donation system?
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