For decades, only the largest givers made extensive use of networking, highly targeted giving and specialized volunteer efforts.
(or its political action committee), the Coca-Cola Co. or PepsiCo — the three largest givers in the industry.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were the second largest givers, pledging $498.8 million to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, according to the Chronicle.
David E. Kendall, the lawyer for the foundation, had initially opposed the House investigators' subpoena for a list of the large givers, arguing that they had a right to privacy.
Peter Buttenweiser, a Philadelphia bundler who raised more than $500,000 in 2008 for Obama, predicted that the re-election campaign will "need to rely more on the large givers and raisers".
Also on the fund-raising committee, however, are lobbyists who represent AT&T and the company ranks as the largest contributor to both political parties and as Mr. McCain's third-largest giver over his political career.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Continental Cablevision employees donated $11,375 to Mr. Kerry from 1989 to 1994, making the company the fifth-largest giver among media and entertainment concerns contributing money to the senator in that period.
Big giver to local causes.
I was a giver, a big giver.
She produced the video, with the Free Range Studios company, and with money from numerous nonprofit groups; the largest single giver was the Tides Foundation.
