has weighed in, pledging in June to work for a ban on the use of food stamps to buy sugary drinks.
Frederick also secured ten million dollars in pledges for need-based scholarships last year.
The Friends of Democratic Pakistan, a consortium of donor countries, has disbursed only about $650 million out of $2.2 billion in pledges for 2010.
The building was acquired in 1997 by the Hunter College Foundation, a private nonprofit corporation, which cobbled together $1.6 million in pledges for restoration, far short of what was required.
Swimming across the Hudson River, 65 people -- from 10 to 60 -- raised close to $25,000 in pledges for the Southern New York chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
It is another failure that by now will hardly surprise the people of Haiti.Correction: This post originally stated that the $207m the UN had raised in pledges for cholera in Haiti was $31m less than was required.
The largest crowdfunding service, Kickstarter, has processed $1.2bn in pledges for successful projects on its site, including $250.8m for games, $206.4m for films and videos, and $117m for music projects.
Peter Knight, the longtime fund-raiser for Vice President Al Gore, secured $3 million in pledges for the fund at a breakfast meeting in Nashville on Wednesday with top Gore finance officials.
Kenneth G. Langone, a co-founder of Home Depot who has been sued by Mr. Spitzer in a New York Stock Exchange case, said in a separate interview this month that he had lined up more than $1 million in pledges for Mr. Suozzi since mid-December.
British officials say the prime minister, Theresa May, will be a speaker at Tuesday's summit, in part because of the UK's role in hosting a donor conference that raised $12bn£9bnbn) in pledges for Syria and the region.
