For decades, only the largest givers made extensive use of networking, highly targeted giving and specialized volunteer efforts.
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.
However, in describing the alleged fading good will of Dominicans, your article does not mention that the Dominican Republic is currently the largest giver of aid to Haiti as a proportion of gross domestic product in the world, despite the many developmental challenges it still faces as a middle-income country.
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".
Many Indian billionaires have not been big givers partly because the country does not have large, well-run foundations and charities that could absorb hundreds of millions or billions of dollars in donations, said Jayant Sinha.
He noted that 6 of the 10 largest corporate givers in the country forbid or restrict donations to religious groups, and he urged them not to do so, saying that he would convene a summit meeting this fall to ask philanthropic leaders to review these policies.
To draw up our list of America's largest corporate givers, we looked at the top Forbes 500s firms by sales and their cash donations for 2002.
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.
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.
Japan, the largest single giver of aid, has just sent its deputy prime minister to Dhaka to demand a clean-up.
