The phrase "amount of charities" is not correct in standard written English.
The word "amount" is typically used for uncountable nouns, while "charities" is a countable noun, so "number of charities" would be more appropriate.
Example: "The number of charities in our community has increased significantly over the past few years."
Alternatives: "number of charities" or "quantity of charities".
She said Prime Healthcare must keep all of the hospitals open for 10 years, while offering the same services and providing the same amount of charity care for indigent patients as Daughters of Charity has been offering.
He was already doing a tremendous amount of charity work for Children with Leukaemia, raising millions.
But there is little that any amount of charity can do to disguise an economic gulf this big.
A recent regulatory change is expected to increase the amount of charity solicitations that use direct mail.
He added: "The thing is to endure with a certain amount of nobility, a certain stoicism, and a certain amount of charity.
The amount of charity care provided by Shands HealthCare, the operator of the Gainesville hospital, has doubled in the last four years, to $115 million in fiscal 2008, Mr. Goldfarb said.
If those bad debts were excluded, the amount of charity care the hospital provided would fall 16percentto to $56.6 million, according to the union's calculations.
In an interview earlier this month, he acknowledged that those groups were uniformly opposed to the fund's reducing its awards by the amount of charity a family received.
Until a recent ruling by the Internal Revenue Service, for instance, a hospital could use the higher prices when calculating the amount of charity care it was providing, said Gerard Anderson, director of the Center for Hospital Finance and Management at Johns Hopkins.
I want to be able to do some of the things that he does in terms of the amount of charity work and the non-profit work, and the way he impacts people off the field".
