Washington Post:
If you've noticed a slightly more hysterical tone in the fund requests we all get from charities this time of year, there's a reason: Donors, hit by factors as varied as the Madoff scandal and the general economic downturn, h (Read More)
USATODAY.com - Opinion:
More benefits than drawbacks to public campaign financing Dennis Brady - Exeter, N.H. In "Fix earmarks, not financing," Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., misses the point (Opposing view, Defense earmarks debate, Monday). Campaign f (Read More)
New York Times:
Gov. Mark Sanford plans to release records to state legislators about previously undisclosed flights that he took on planes owned by friends and campaign donors.
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washingtonpost.com - Editorials:
RELIABLE NUMBERS are hard to come by, but at a very conservative guess there are tens of thousands of Muslims living in Virginia. Now one of the top financial donors to Robert F. McDonnell, the state's governor-elect, has sme (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW DELHI (Reuters AlertNet) - Afghans say foreign donors must commit and deliver "more effective aid" if the country is to pull itself out of poverty and end more than three decades of violence, Oxfam International said in a (Read More)
Bangalore-Cities-The Times of India:
When Iskcon sent an email to donors abroad, seeking donations for their successful Akshaya Patra, with details of how many children the scheme was feeding every day, they are supposed to have received a reply, asking to recon (Read More)
USATODAY.com - Opinion:
Our view on defense earmarks: Campaign cash for contracts casts Congress in a bad light Public financing of elections purges the urge to reward donors. When it came out last month that seven members of a key House committee w (Read More)
Crooks and Liars:
This is such a stellar example of Republican hypocrisy, you'd be hard pressed to think of a better one:The Republican National Committee will no longer offer employees an insurance plan that covers abortion after POLITICO rep (Read More)
New York Times:
Giving money is a critical step, but some of the world’s biggest donors have found that making the gift work as intended requires political skills, too. (Read More)
New York Times:
Giving money is a critical step, but some of the world’s biggest donors have found that making the gift work as intended requires political skills, too.
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Reuters:
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has granted Pakistan a $380 million soft loan to mainly support its budget, in the biggest single donation since donors pledged $5.7 billion of aid in April to the violence-torn country.
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washingtonpost.com - Health:
JOHANNESBURG -- Slowed funding from international donors, including the United States, is imperiling recent dramatic gains in treating AIDS patients in the developing world, according to a new report.
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feeds.washingtonpost.com:
JOHANNESBURG -- Slowed funding from international donors, including the United States, is imperiling recent dramatic gains in treating AIDS patients in the developing world, according to a new report.
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paidContent.org:
Monday evening as the Texas Tribune raced toward its launch this morning (some elements aren’t live yet), Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith took me through the new nonprofit journalism (Read More)
Crooks and Liars:
In the 2006 cycle the candidate who attracted the most support from Blue America donors was Ned Lamont, with his campaign that served notice on the Democratic Establishment that the grassroots was unwilling to just eat up wha (Read More)