Since 1996, when the Virginia Public Access Project began collecting campaign finance data, the company has donated $11.1 million to Virginia politicians and political committees in both parties ― more than any other private-industry donor.
In the period 2002-2005 (when the data for our analysis were collected), the financing of the health sector in the country was fragmented, with the Health Insurance Institute paying for most of the salaries of primary care physicians, selected drugs and few high-end diagnostics [ 2].
Berlin-based Web analytics company Webtrekk has closed its third round of financing, collecting a total of up to €25 million from DPE Deutsche Private Equity.
A health system in any country performs instrumental functions of stewardship (oversight), creation of resources (investment and training), delivering services (provision), and financing (collecting, pooling and purchasing) [ 1].
"We're seeing a lot of foreign companies that are learning to play the political game," said Larry Noble, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit group in Washington that collects campaign finance data.
By the end of 2007, the Obama campaign had raised $462,340 overseas and the Clinton campaign had taken in $435,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit group in Washington that collects campaign finance data.
His suggestion to spread the money spent on science competitions to the 14 failing public schools on Long Island demonstrates his ignorance regarding the manner in which school taxes are collected to finance district budgets.
To help the patent office update its technology and deal with a mountain of patent applications, the bill would allow the patent office to keep all of the fees it collects to finance its operations, removing it from politics of the Congressional appropriations process.
Mobile operator Safaricom's M-PESA started life in March 2007 as a way to pay and collect micro-financing.
She and her husband also looked after their models' finances, collecting the fees and making sure they were paid on time.
