The AltruHelp team joined the reinvigorated initiative in January with our pledge commitment alongside 60 other organizations.
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Additionally, the Committee is encouraging people to pledge a commitment to serve after MLK Day throughout 2013.
It will be a rare opportunity for world leaders to pledge their commitment to do more to protect children from war, disease and poverty.
If they make this pledge and commitment to stay in school with the knowledge that they leave millions and millions of dollars on the table, then the pledge carries much more gravity.
The pledge is a moral commitment to give, not a legal contract, and it does not involve pooling money or supporting a particular set of causes or organizations.
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Two years ago, Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg signed The Giving Pledge, a public commitment to give away 50% of his wealth or more during his lifetime or upon his death.
The site says the pledge is a "moral commitment" not a "legal contract".
The idea of the Giving Pledge and making a public commitment, we thought, would motivate others, not just the wealthy.
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Included in this commitment is a pledge by the Military Spouse Employment Partnership to employ 50, 000 military spouses in the coming years!
Speculation over Labour's commitment to the pledge has been rife recently after an internal Labour Party consultation showed little enthusiasm for reform.
The SDLP's Alban Maginness has accused the DUP's Nelson McCausland of being "dangerously close" to breaking his Stormont ministerial pledge, which includes a commitment to uphold the rule of law.
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One or more Republican lawmakers will appear to publicly waver on their commitment to the pledge. (Norquist points to Chambliss, Graham and King as repeat offenders.) That open questioning is often followed just as predictably by a private call to Norquist -- who says Chambliss has called to apologize -- and more often than not, some kind of public mea culpa.
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According to city officials and Mr. Cestero, the developer's commitment to fulfill its pledge with regard to affordable housing isn't binding.
It also makes it look ever more eccentric that the party's one hard fiscal commitment is an old pledge to cut inheritance tax.
And even austere New Labour has made a spending pledge, on top of its commitment to increase education's share of national income, in this campaign.
For he has, in effect, campaigned with two contradictory messages: a pledge to keep to France's commitment to bring down the budget deficit to 3% next year (and to eliminate it by 2017), and a promise to increase benefits and fight austerity in Europe.
As a nation, we'll pledge to fulfill our responsibilities to our veterans, because our commitment to our veterans is a sacred trust, and upholding that trust is a moral obligation.
But following his pledge to talk to such groups, America seems to doubt his commitment.
At a Capability Commitment Conference in Brussels on Monday, European Union nations will pledge troops to the new RRF and discuss how to make it viable.
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