"charitable operation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase when you are referring to an organization, activity, or event with the purpose of raising money to give to those in need. For example, "The local church hosted a charitable operation over the weekend to raise money for the homeless."
He describes the bookstore as a "charitable operation" that barely generates enough business to pay the landlord, the staff and the British distributor.
And their farm stand is a charitable operation open only in August, run by the Fitzgerald's two sons, William, 10, and Robert, 8, and 20percentt of the proceeds got to the Bridgewater and Roxbury Land Trusts.
The program that the president visited here on his way to a private lunch with supporters in a wealthy corner of the suburb of Villanova is the charitable operation of the Greater Exodus Baptist Church.
At the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, an intense period of fund-raising is underway, which is widely seen as an effort to build up the family's charitable operation now, because a presidential campaign would soon interfere with philanthropic activities.
After the founding in 1983 of Newman's Own, which donates all of its after-tax profits to various causes, Mr. Newman decided to establish his own charitable operation: the nonprofit Hole in the Wall Gang Camps, which enroll children for free.
This much is clear: It's no charitable operation.
By maintaining a close connection with the Catholic church, Sanz-Bachiller turned Auxilio Social into one of Spain's most effective charitable operations.
The officials were among the witnesses at a public hearing held in Manhattan by four State Assembly committees, each with varying degrees of responsibility for charitable operations.
Of course, ad counters aren't charitable operations: they give away this independent counting function because it lets them gather titanic amounts of information about browsing habits.
Stephen M. Case, America Online's 43-year-old former chairman, will remain chairman of AOL Time Warner, where he primarily oversees the company's technology, policy and charitable operations, while leaving daily oversight of the company to the chief executive.
Awards based on family size "make some sense," Ms. Livingston said, "but I can see other standards that one could say were objective, but that would be at cross purposes with charitable operations".
