But only about 44 cents of every dollar raised — or $14 million — actually reached needy causes, far below the 65 cents most philanthropic groups view as acceptable.
Government was limited, local, even intimate, because it was neither hijacked from above by the aristocrats nor from below by the needy, appetitive mob.
UC's Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan ensures in 2009-10 thallall needy students with household incomes below $60,000 receive gift aid covering system-wide fees up to their need level.
In 2010-11 the university will expand the Blue and Gold plan to all needy students with family incomes below $70,000, and pursue an ambitious fundraising initiative, "Project You Can," that aims to raise $1 billion in private support for student aid in four years.
So the governor's appointments secretary, Ellen E. Conovitz, recommended that Ms. Sotomayor serve as a board member of Sonyma, the state mortgage agency, which provided below-market-rate mortgages for the needy.
Johnson benefited from a program run by the nonprofit Los Angeles Mission, in which donated cars are repaired and sold below market value to needy individuals.
(A fake bark from a reporter produced a picture of a needy dog face with "let's play" written below it).
Under the programme, up to 20 kg of rice is distributed monthly to needy households at a price that is considerably below the market price.
The Heritage Foundation sometimes offers a narrow definition of the "unsustainable welfare state," based on means-tested programs – benefits directed to those with income below a poverty threshold, like Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, food stamps and Medicaid.
Still, I prefer performances that capture more of the nervousness coursing below the surface of the music as the needy siblings move toward the fatal culmination of their ardor.
