Her favoured causes, Great Ormond Street Hospital, the Leprosy Mission, Centrepoint, benefited hugely.
But our favoured causes have no exclusive title to the Human Rights Act.
Meanwhile, the Gates Foundation, a keen supporter of the GIIN, has begun an experiment in using financial innovation to generate extra investment in its favoured causes.
She devoted more time to favoured causes, including antivivisectionism and the protection of minors, and her letters afford the reader an in-depth perspective on these and other public issues and on the personal values underlying her opinions.
The tension that emerges in the book between the old-fashioned city boss, full of grudges and vanities and favoured causes, and the cool modern technocrat, forever presenting statistics, becomes a vivid illustration of the dilemmas of contemporary politicians.
That was just the tip of the iceberg: Stipe, especially, always seemed to be talking up his favoured causes; it was something he felt was both a duty and a privilege, but it created pressures.
The prince also had his favoured causes, concern for the environment, the preservation of architectural standards, but a picture of Diana cuddling a handicapped child was what caught the eye.
And her favoured causes are anxious because next year they will have to compete for grants from the fund on exactly the same basis as every other charity.Diana's bequest to charity has been positive.
(America, incidentally, captures the gap between Dr Fox and the Tory leadership like nothing else: he strives to maintain contact with the Republicans; Mr Cameron's people are fervent fans of Barack Obama).His enemies accuse Dr Fox of an incoherence that is typical of the right: craving a smaller state but complaining of cuts to favoured causes.
And, either cynically or cleverly, many suspected that the headline number might be a touch misleading.Buried in the terms will no doubt be money set aside for politically favoured causes, such as reducing mortgage payments for struggling homeowners and other consumer relief.
