Additional factors prompted wealthy countries to shift their donations away from agriculture.
Usually, we give our catalogs away, but we heard that the World Trade Center was drawing donations away from other charities, so we decided to offer the catalog for a $15 donation to the Neediest Cases".
Mayor Letitia G. Colombi said she wanted to make sure that any group having a bin in Haddonfield was legitimate and not taking donations away from organizations like Goodwill and the Salvation Army.
Officials at the foundation, however, say they are looking to increase overall giving rather than take donations away from others, especially given the wealth now concentrated in the borough.
The organization is caught up in a power struggle with a number of large United Ways over a plan championed by Mrs. Beene that would shift the processing of donations away from regional organizations to a national pledge-processing center.
Many big banks are clutching their cash, abandoning gift-matching programs or simply cutting smaller checks, while other firms are steering donations away from miscellaneous causes to focus on programs that carry the company name, like the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program.
In the discussions with their American counterparts, Saudi law enforcement officials said they would try to channel monetary donations away from mosques into more regulated entities that would allow the Saudi authorities to keep a closer eye on the source and destination of such money.
But when grassroots supporters began donating money to the DCCC in protest, she said, it started "looking a whole lot better!" "Now, we're less than 900 donations away from reaching 10,000 contributions in just one day!
If you think Emme feels bad about losing her long brown hair, try to imagine those who are facing daily treatments of radiation and chemotherapy, said Mary Beth Molnar and Lynn Ramsey, PTA volunteers who were taking donations feet away from the stage.
We visited a school and saw the students sing and dance, which was at once very sweet and very sad, because these performances, which are done in part to draw donations, take them away from schoolwork.
