Sentence examples for charitable transactions from inspiring English sources

Rather than demean the poor, private charity provides significant benefits for all parties involved: In the last decade, the fields of neuroscience and experimental economics have shown that when charitable transactions occur, the chemical oxytocin is released in the brains of both the receiver and the donor.

One would suppose that the beneficiaries, not the givers, are the consumers in a charitable transaction.

Last month, Saudi Arabia released a list of actions they said had been taken to combat misuse by terrorists of charitable donations and legitimate transactions.

One of the largest accounting firms promoted dubious charitable deductions and complicated transactions to generate phony paper losses for clients, say Senate investigators who spent a year unwinding four tax products that KPMG sold to more than 350 individuals in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Ajamie was spending most of his time looking into whether Weinstein had participated in similar transactions with other charitable organizations, according to several emails he sent to outside parties.

A month after Snyder told staff members that the $600,000 transaction was "to satisfy a commercial transaction," he told the special committee overseeing his work that the transaction was a charitable contribution.

"Gibson Dunn advised the Audit Committee and the Board that the transaction was a charitable contribution made to Harvard's ART pursuant to agreements between ART and TWC concerning the developmental production of  'Finding Neverland,'" he said in an email.

Similarly, MasterCard, Visa and American Express said on Thursday that they would waive transaction fees for some charitable donations to the relief efforts.

Law enforcement officials insist that the so-called Herndon charities investigation is still moving forward, with agents and prosecutors immersed in tracing what they say is a Byzantine trail of transactions between corporations and related charitable entities here and overseas.

Yet charitable giving is not a simple financial transaction.

The Huffington Post estimates that American banks and credit card companies make huge profits -- somewhere in the neighborhood of $250 million a year - by skimming their "transaction fees" off the top of charitable donations.