A Camp Fund As His Legacy SOME donations are as sad as they are sweet.
Some donations will be tax deductible depending on where you live and the amount donated.
(Some donations were as small as 50 cents, he said).
Some donations came from Mr. Gore's much-criticized visit to a Buddhist temple in California.
Some donations would also be used to pay private landowners at the border to allow construction on their property.
Some donations have been big, with Run Run Shaw, a Hong Kong millionaire, giving $14 million, while schoolchildren have donated the equivalent of pennies.
Some donations connected to Mr. Hsu raise questions about his bundling activities, although there is no evidence he did anything improper.
"Some donations to the U.W.B.A. processed by Pipevine have not been distributed to designated nonprofit organizations, and this is of grave concern to the U.W.B.A.," Anne Wilson, chief executive of the United Way group, said in a statement.
Some donations are considered eyesores, some minor embarrassments — like the priapic sculpture of a bull elephant near the north fence, his majestic anatomy safely hidden by a thick hedge the height of his stomach.
Some donations are being incorporated into the main structure, others are going into the rudder or seating.
The economic downturn is fueling a boom in some donations.
