It is not possible from public records to directly link fund-raisers to contributors, but some patterns are not hard to deduce, particularly when corporate executives solicit their employees or colleagues for donations.
These link funding for the war in Iraq to a timetable for withdrawing American troops.
German doctors and hospitals, for example, have fought efforts to link funding with quality of care, says Maria Nadj-Kittler of the Picker Institute Europe, a research organisation, and are therefore hostile to patient reviews.
Nobody had tried to link funding mechanisms with first jobs for newly minted Ph.D.s, so she couldn't predict the answer.
"This report's attempt to link funding and school achievement is fundamentally flawed as its simplistic approach totally fails to take into account the different contexts of schools".
The results of our analysis confirm that remittances of Moroccan migrants can not only be seen as the result of an implicit family arrangement to which it may link funding costs of international migration and remittances together.
Consequently, studies that did not explicitly describe underlying funding changes or did not link funding changes to health outcomes had to be excluded, even if external funding was likely or known to have enabled the documented programme scale-up.
Another would be to improve corporate governance by tying executives' compensation to long-term performance rather than one-year profits, and by linking fund managers' pay to skill in picking stocks, not in marketing their funds.
The Value Trend Links fund, which invested in golf-related stocks and golf tournament sponsors, had a more palatable premise but similarly sub-par performance.
But it does an excellent job of linking funds to outcomes, especially in education.
And in what seems like a bit of smash-mouth budgeting, the administration has even suggested linking funding for efficiency programs to royalties from Arctic drilling.
