"The traditional model for fund-raisers involved rubber chicken dinners with long speeches," Mr. Stavisky said.
Their presence in Bosnia proved so successful for Al Qaeda operatives, officials said, that it became an "off-the-shelf" model for fund-raising and recruitment used by the terrorist organization again and again -- in Kosovo, Albania and Chechnya.
"New philanthropists are setting higher standards for charities and seeking to be more involved in the application of their money, so it would behoove foundations and other charities to begin finding a model for fund-raising that allows donors to engage in the mission of the organization".
DealBook » An Expert Fund-Raiser at Carlyle | The Financial Times has a profile of David M. Rubenstein, one of the founders of the Carlyle Group, who pioneered a model for fund-raising and was the first of the firm's partners to talk openly about the benefits of going public.
What Cavendish's letter implies, as the sale of the Washington Post also implied, is that the old model for funding journalism is bust.
She later told MPs that she would enter the BBC Charter Renewal process with the "going in position" that the licence fee was the best model for funding the organisation.
It could either embrace a subscription model and risk losing its special status as a national broadcaster, or it could convince the government that it deserves a new model for funding that preserves its independence.
But the real point is that neither a safety net nor a partnership model for funding social care is likely to come up with the workable, sustainable and effective model.
The success of an experimental new government model for funding public services rests in part on the decisions made by a troubled homeless woman in her 50s who, for the past two years, has spent most nights sleeping on night buses circling the capital.
The current model for funding British Olympians makes it impossible for emerging sports to develop, says the chief executive of British Handball.
Representatives from both campaigns repeatedly lauded ARPA-E's nimble model for funding high-risk basic research during a debate on energy and environmental policy sponsored by Business Roundtable.
