The Massachusetts Cultural Council, meanwhile, has provided financing to groups like ACT.
The organization has provided financing for roughly 33 loans totaling $37,000 and now has six paid employees.
While Al Qaeda has provided financing and other support to Lashkar in the past, their links today remain murky.
And it is Mr. Obama who has provided financing for the Iron Dome missile defense system, which has prevented hundreds of rockets from hitting Israeli targets.
Many are applauding Alternare's efforts, including the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, which has provided financing for the group since it began its work five years ago.
A Denver company has provided financing for the first new housing development in Yonkers in 30 years, to be known as Harbor Park.
Mr. Miller also gave credit to David G. Bronner, the chief executive of Alabama's state pension system, which has provided financing for US Airways during its bankruptcy.
"If you just stand up and deliver a lecture on intellectual property, it has no meaning for the kids," said Constance M. Yowell, director of education for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which has provided financing.
Galatioto is one of the leading investment bankers in sports; his group, first at SG Cowen and now at Lehman, has provided financing for some of the largest team and stadium deals of the past few years.
Gelbspan's first book, "The Heat Is On" (1997), remains the best, and virtually only, study of how the coal and oil industry has provided financing to a small group of contrarian scientists who began to make themselves available for mass media interviews as so-called skeptics on the subject of global warming.
