One respondent explained: One of the challenges when a donor moves into the district, you just see a donor is working there.
Western donors, moved by pictures of swollen-bellied tots, reach into their pockets.
According to The Times's Raymond Bonner, a group of Pakistani-American donors moved up the date of a fund-raiser for Hillary so they could press her to support the stop in Pakistan.
But then, broadly speaking, foreign-aid donors moved away from such interventions, which were viewed as meddling with the free market, and shifted financing priorities to areas like education and AIDS.
Senate Republicans, who once had perhaps the most formidable fund-raising operation in Albany, were heavily outraised by Senate Democrats during the first six months of 2009, as donors moved to ingratiate themselves with the new majority party, according to an analysis of donation records by the New York Public Interest Research Group, a nonpartisan watchdog organization.
The big donors move on to younger, prettier candidates.
An ailing economy, a number of corporate donors moving out of the county, audiences who stayed home more in the months after Sept. 11, along with the usual pressures of competing with Manhattan's larger and better-financed arts organizations, have combined in the past year to create an unusually difficult fund-raising climate.
A base of support matters if groups want to continue their work when international donors move on to other countries.
When donors move from one place to another, most are lost for years until the nonprofit catches up with a change of address.
· Emphasize small-scale, smallholder owner-operated systems: Large donors move considerable sums of money and are often in a hurry to disburse.
