But convention organizers and Mr. McAuliffe, who had to do last-minute fund-raising in 2000 when Los Angeles came up short, said they were not alarmed.
"It has been getting more and more beautiful every time I turn around," said Marcella Calabi, an organizer of the last-minute fund-raising drive.
And when the Department of Cultural Affairs decided, that same year, that the city was too broke to pay for an annual New Year's Eve celebration in Central Park, it was Ms. Boyle, then 26 and the department's director of special projects, who kept it going with a frenzy of last-minute fund-raising calls.
In the last two weeks before the 2008 election, Mr. Murtha went on a last-minute fund-raising blitz, and PMA executives and clients gave him more than $100,000, according to a tally by the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call.
The ledger details the agency's minutes, fund-raising and construction plans, including drawings.
In the work-out, Karsten von Köller, Lone Star's boss in Frankfurt, is playing hard-ball with local banks which had pumped in last-minute funding.
BHS was forced into administration on 25 April after Chappell failed to secure last-minute funding to keep the business afloat or to do a deal with Ashley.
Klein says that he worries about a late outpouring of funds from the Christian right in the campaign's final days; he has put his house on the market and will sell it if the campaign needs last-minute funding.
Their plan was to take a poll at the end of the contest which they hoped would show a competitive race and then use the results to help raise last-minute funds and overtake their opponent.
She was dejected, and weighed giving up, but when she won last-minute funding from the Stoneleigh Foundation she moved her operations to Oakland, California, and launched a program called the Center on Youth Registration Reform, with a new criminal-justice-advocacy group known as Impact Justice.
There was no excuse for this last-minute funding crisis.
