From telethons to seven-figure corporate pledges to church bake sales, hundreds of millions of dollars have been raised.
Still, the corporate pledges could make a difference if they help to shift the debate about climate change in the US.
The money has been raised in countless ways, from 50-cent piggy bank donations to $10 million corporate pledges to a telethon that raised more than $150 million.
Information, exposes, public shaming, corporate pledges, etcetera are all good, but, in the end, they are insufficient to get behavior to change.
A 10-month investigation by the federal General Accounting Office into alleged misuse of tax funds for the game provided no conclusive findings of any such misuse, but cost the foundation $650,000 in corporate pledges, Arnhym said.
"They won't be able to hire a million veterans anytime soon," Jeffrey Wenger, a public policy expert at the Rand Corp. think tank in Santa Monica, said of the corporate pledges.
With close to $300 million already received from governments and individual donors and with ongoing fundraising still taking place – ranging from corporate pledges, all star concerts, employee giving, grassroots fundraisers and school collections – UNICEF said it expects to receive enough to meet its requirements for the foreseeable future.
WP: Is the "no corporate PAC" pledge these members took sustainable now that they're incumbents, now that there are other races grabbing attention?
Corporate executives pledge allegiance to their directors and shareholders.
The Atlantic's Elaine Godfrey breaks down the financial wizardry and the symbolism behind Democrats' "no corporate money" pledge.
