They listened to experts talk about foundation tax-planning, about big causes like wiring up American schools and helping poor kids overseas.
The MMA Praxis funds invest according to Mennonite beliefs, and focus on promoting causes like AIDS prevention and stamping out predatory lending.
If donors emphasize giving toward causes like vocational training, scholarships and region-specific job creation, the result will be lasting change for the better.
Nicola Vose, who is leading a campaign to save the Cheviot View and Castle Dene respite homes, said causes like theirs were being overlooked.
Gates and Buffett are in the process of giving away virtually all of their wealth for little causes like medical research and eradicating diseases in Africa.
With an eye toward being a good neighbor, the Gateses have also earmarked funds for causes like local Outward Bound programs and the Seattle Art Museum.
Megat blames "natural causes like beriberi" for the fatalities.
Brilliant, who ran that unit of the company until its management was subsumed within Google's business development office, pushed it into disease eradication, alongside somewhat more commercially flavored investments in causes like renewable energy.
Public opinion in many Arab countries is rather more sympathetic to the Iranians than are their leaders - the proverbial "Arab street" seeing Iran often as a rather more active champion of causes like that of the Palestinians.
Most accidents now are caused by single causes, like bird strikes, that you simply can't legislate against.
There are many examples in Washington where the same thing can be said and that a precipitating event like this causes political shockwaves that change the dynamic.
These private foundations are required by law to give away 5% of their assets each year to support charitable causes, like feeding the hungry, protecting the environment and curing disease.
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When people are totally out of sync with what tomorrow looks like, it causes brand damage.
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Hepatitis A causes flu-like symptoms and anyone concerned should contact their GP, said Public Health Wales.
Celebrity interest in Katrina, like other public causes, didn't come without some criticism.
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The combo causes flu-like symptoms and anemia, but cures 40% of patients.
Video games are not guns, and to treat them as equally dangerous is helping no one and doing nothing but obscure the true causes of tragedies like this.
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But even with shorter regimens, both drugs will still have to be given with interferon alpha, the two-decade old antiviral drug made by Merck and Roche that causes nasty flu like side-effects, including fever and fatigue.
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The business controls how much it decides to pay per check-in, what causes it would like to support, sets the donation limit per month and even provide an offer back to the user if they choose.
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J. over the past five years and funded numerous educational causes and institutions, like Teach for America.
Ohanian, who also helped launch travel site Hipmunk and runs Breadpig, a site that gives all proceeds to social causes, said that like some of his other successes, his role was a matter of good timing.
In a world with a zillion causes (starving children, baby seals), it's hard to fathom what drives folks like Ms. Rojas to make charitable causes of their own ambitions, but that may be exactly the sort of mentality it takes to succeed here.
It's hard to deliver ads to tablets and smartphones, which causes no small anxiety at companies like Facebook and Google.
In all, it's a risky gambit for one of the most successful shows in daytime talk, threatening to tarnish legitimate causes McGraw has taken up, like childhood obesity and suicide prevention.
This has been the problem with the war on cancer all along, is that we've mainly been supporting basic biology research and while that's fine and good for biology, what we really need is an aggressive campaign against the causes of cancer, against things like tobacco, against things like asbestos.
However, from my experience, politicians like to focus in on popular environmental causes (fracking), instead of what has happened (dioxane and oil).
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Although, in most cases, it causes little more than severe flu-like symptoms, occasionally there can be complications including inflammation of the lining of the heart.
This fear causes some women to make hasty decisions like staying in unfulfilling relationships that lead to unsuccessful marriages, which end in divorce (another dismal statistic).
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