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The group Swing Left has a helpful website that enables people to find the nearest congressional swing district – the point being to identify where Democrats should focus their attention and donations.
The Life You Can Save, a nonprofit organization that I founded a few years ago, has a Charity Impact Calculator that enables you to see what can be achieved by donations to charities with a proven record of effective aid for the world’s poorest people.
But, as recent revelations about purveyors of shell companies or bribery by intermediaries demonstrate, much of the real leverage is to be found at home – in the domestic financial and property industries, in public relations and law firms that burnish kleptocrats’ images, and in universities that educate corrupt officials’ children and solicit their donations.
Even when the donations made by Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller are adjusted for inflation, Buffett’s is greater.
But as important as these commitments are, Africa’s education crisis will not be overcome by donations and pledges alone.
In addition to harmonizing the flow of donations and an agreed-upon list of development projects, Dominican President Leonel Fernandez seeks to make clear that the task is a long-term enterprise: re-founding the failing Haitian state.
According to the Center for International Media Assistance, the donations included “generous” support to the “reliably pro-government” newspaper Pobjeda.
Funded almost entirely by donations, Atlatszo’s annual budget is less than half of MTVA’s daily allocation.
Many of these donations are made not out of love for the Kim dynasty, but to buy the safety of family members back home.
While UN peacekeepers are financed by a system of “assessed contributions,” humanitarian aid depends on voluntary donations.
Sadly, the world’s response to pleas for donations has been slow and miserly.
Unlike hunger or land mines, the cause of rectifying global trade imbalances will not touch the public enough to attract the donations that are necessary to keep NGOs afloat.
A "sunshine law" to regulate political donations was enacted before the ballots were cast.
Donations of bandages and blankets to Ukraine's ravaged people will not stop the bloodshed – or prevent the West's dishonor.
Though Zimbabwe was once known as “the breadbasket of Africa,” many of its citizens now go hungry and depend on international food donations for survival.
Now Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s administration has responded to this activity, introducing legislation that bans foreign donations to political parties and activist groups, including some charities, and requires former politicians, lobbyists, and executives working for foreign interests to register if they are to be involved in Australian politics.
Finally, an especially popular explanation is that the rich have captured the levers of power, through campaign donations.
Donations are flowing in, but the total will be small relative to what is needed.
For starters, with access to such records, a citizen could make payments or donations that bypass the banking system and its embedded surveillance.
Certainly not politicians, who get re-elected when jobs are plentiful and stock prices are up – and get donations from all of the industries that participate in the production of processed food.
It draws scant media attention or celebrity firepower, which are often crucial to attracting charitable donations to a cause.
And that is as true of our own small-scale charitable donations as it is of governments’ or philanthropists’ aid budgets.
It is centered on a huge painting, restored using donations from Dutch citizens, that pays tribute to the Duke of Wellington, as well as to the role of William of Orange, the future king of the Netherlands, in the battle.
By extending constitutional free-speech protection to political campaign donations, that ruling removed all constraints on the power of money over US politics.
Which candidates will they support with donations and votes in the 2014 and 2016 elections?
Instead, they relied on student tuition, as well as donations from local elites, most of whom were more interested in how a college would increase the value of their adjoining property than they were in supporting education.
State funding was still insufficient, so leaders of public colleges needed to attract tuition from students and donations from graduates.
On August 21, Thailand’s ambassador to India tweeted: “Informally informed with regret that [the] Government of India is not accepting overseas donations for Kerala flood relief.”
Drug donations by companies have been criticized for being mostly unsustainable.
Similarly, while charitable donations by billionaires certainly should be welcomed, companies should also be made to pay a reasonable amount of taxes.
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