Nancy Rabin, the former chairwoman of the American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel's Trust for Philanthropy, a membership association of businesses that work with nonprofit organizations to help them improve fund-raising, has delivered this pitch many times.
* Seventy percent of the farmers and ranchers seeking USDA funds to help improve water quality are rejected due to inadequate funding.
They also call for improvements to mental health services, funding to help improve school climate and strings on federal money to ensure that each school has an emergency safety plan.
G7 leaders meeting in Bavaria have agreed to establish a new fund to help improve the global supply chain in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh in 2013 in which 1,137 people died when a building housing garment workers collapsed.
Both have written thoughtfully about the need to assist religious groups with public funds to help improve communities, schools and other services.
"The funds can help improve the health of the banks, but that is not sufficient to provide liquidity even in terms of working capital, which is of essential importance for companies," he said.
Earlier today, Code.org announced $12 million in new funding to help improve access to computer science education.
There is funding to help improve cyber security.
Collins complained at the time to CNN that: "There's funding to help improve our preparedness for a pandemic flu.
The state was able to keep spending significantly below the agreed-upon amount, and invested some of these excess funds to help improve the health of the population, which in turn helps limit future health care needs, further reducing costs.
