Meanwhile, the FARC continues to draw financing from the cocaine trade, using local traffickers in Venezuela to smuggle Colombian cocaine to points northward from Venezuelan airstrips, according to the State Department's International Narcotics Control Strategy Report.
Critics of the proposal argue that the charter school will impoverish the Roosevelt school district, since charter schools draw financing from public school districts in proportion to the number of students they lure away from regular public schools.
Oregon voters resoundingly defeated two health-related initiatives that captured national attention and even drew financing from supporters and opponents overseas.
Because the Jacob Burns Film Center is a nonprofit corporation that draws financing from memberships and donations, however, it is not wholly reliant on ticket sales and can take more programming chances than a commercial theater.
"It's hard to untangle what is the normal disturbance and chaos that happens with new stuff, and what is actually a systemic problem," said Jill Chaifetz, executive director of Advocates for Children, a nonprofit group that closely monitors the school system and draws financing from private foundations as well as the state and federal governments.
You should also consider the pros and cons of drawing financing from friends and relatives.
The report said that the group drew financing in part from Pakistani expatriates in the Middle East, and that it used a front organization called Jamaat ud-Daawa to coordinate charitable activities, like relief for the victims of the October 2006 earthquake in Kashmir.
In general, terrorist groups can draw on financing from two primary sources.
But it could draw on financing from China's state-owned banks and a clutch of willing Western private equity players, much the same way China's Lenovo engineered a highly leveraged acquisition of the personal computer division of IBM.
SafeWeb, a maker of networking hardware in Emeryville, Calif., that has drawn some financing from the Central Intelligence Agency, recently provided free software called Triangle Boy that protected Internet users' identities by routing their browsing through SafeWeb's server.
One Afghan security official who has tracked members of Al Qaeda since 2001 but asked not to be named because of the delicacy of his work, said that Bin Laden was not just a charismatic figurehead who inspired so many fighters, but also the main draw for financing from rich supporters in Arab countries.
