Sentence examples for collect pledges from inspiring English sources

The sleep-in enables people go online to collect pledges from friends — sort of a virtual run.

The campaign is due to start in September 2016, when the NUS plans to collect pledges from students that they will carry out the boycott if the government refuses their demands.

More than 90 children have signed up to read to themselves, be read to or read to children at the Center or to seniors at the senior day care center, Second Home, and collect pledges from family and friends.

The organization's project aims to collect pledges and stories from first-generation college graduates to inspire the next generation of students who will be first.

On June 20 , 2012 the Daddies launched a PledgeMusic campaign to help finance the final stages of the album's production, successfully reaching its target on August 14 and continuing to collect pledges into the following year, ultimately raising 133% of its goal.

UNICEF will continue to collect pledges through various alternative methods over the next two years.

So far, the group said, it had collected pledges of more than $10,000.

Planned after the stock market plunge of 1987, the museum had difficulty collecting pledges from some major benefactors, he said.

As of late Sunday, the organization had collected pledges of $103 million, about $22 million of which came through the text-messaging program.

Even had the big order shipped, returns of unsold units could have led to financial ruin.Kickstarter begins by collecting pledges backed by credit cards.

Peter Knight, a top Gore fund-raiser, said he had collected pledges for that amount at a Nashville breakfast for 200 campaign financiers at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, less than eight hours after Mr. Gore retracted his concession to Mr. Bush.