Pledges yield benefits for donors
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World leaders are realising that big donations for tsunami aid can yield political benefits, says the BBC's John Simpson.
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Pledging to retain the facade of historic homes affords a charitable deduction.
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There's a hidden promise in these results.
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The move brings the European Union's total promises of support to 1.5bn once contributions from the 25 national governments are included.
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Senator Barack Obamaâs campaign has employed novel tactics, like counting sales of $4.50 key chains as contributions, to pump up numbers and cultivate support.
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Indonesia's main donors pledged on  Thursday to give $5.1 billion in aid this year, far more than  Jakarta expected, including $1.7 billion to help rebuild  northern Sumatra, where 166,000 people died in last month's  tsunami.
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Donor hearts could make good scaffolding for new organs.
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By Pam Firmin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 15--Call it encouragement. Call it a bribe.
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By Marcia Gelbart, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 2--It was like a stocking stuffer: a single $100 Christmas Day donation to the Fattah for Mayor campaign.   Sure, 145 other contributors also opened their wallets in November and December to support U.S. Rep.
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Give your donors what they need while following your own rules.
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The international donors from 55 international organization and countries have gathered for two-days meeting in Tokyo. Approximately $14 billion were promised by foreign givers in last yearâs gathering in Madrid.
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It is important that potential donors know about possible complications before they make this life-saving sacrifice.
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Several thousand political contributors have donated to two or more presidential candidates this year, an overlap in giving that tilts decidedly to the Democrats.
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TechWeb - The social networking site will soon provide all declared candidates who have set up MySpace pages with a click-on tool that allows visitors to pledge donations.
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Cisco has donated $1 million as a company, and the Cisco Systems Foundation has pledged at least $1 million more to match donations already made by Cisco employees.
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TOKYO - Hoping to keep much-needed cash flowing into war-ravaged Iraq, Japan will host a 50-nation Iraqi reconstruction donors' conference this week that may focus less on getting new pledges than on getting countries to honor their earlier promises.    The two-day conference, starting Wednesday, is a follow-up to a high-profile meeting in Madrid last year in which 37 countries and international lending institutions pledged $13.6 billion in grants and loans...
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The Conservatives are set to make an "unambiguous commitment" to giving more funds to public services.