Sentence examples for organized benefit from inspiring English sources

They sold thousands of shirts, held car washes, collected change outside grocery stores and organized benefit concerts, raising about $1 million over the last five years.

They believed his girlfriend, Rosa Martinez, when she told them that Rowan was dead — so much so that they organized benefit fights in his memory.

The issue closest to his heart was the longed-for defeat of Fascism in Spain, but once in exile from the Franco dictatorship, Casals never returned to his homeland, and during the civil war of 1936-39, he organized benefit concerts for victims on the Republican side.

Several restaurants, including Eleven Madison Park and the Momofuku empire, organized benefits that raised about $13,000 for rebuilding.

Don Henley, singer and guitarist who was a member of the Eagles, has spent much of the last decade organizing benefit concerts and albums and writing about Walden Woods as part of his Thoreau Institute.

Indeed, like the Blue Knights, the Wild Pigs organize benefits for charity each year.

He was an early supporter of AIDS programs and was a prime mover in organizing benefits for AIDS care at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical CeNew York Hospital-Cornell

With his musical career having temporarily slowed, he followed his convictions and spent five years working, often full-time, in Greenpeace's Los Angeles office, organizing benefits, coaching celebrity spokesmen and producing "Alternative NRG," an album recorded with solar power.

Many have been encouraged by the way action-sports athletes reacted swiftly to organize benefits and fund-raisers to help with some of Murray's mounting medical expenses, and to assist his wife and two young children.

Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, 38, who helps organize benefits for Save Venice, Memorial Sloan-Kettering and the Alliance Française, said it was the sheer volume of invitations that drove many to purchase junior tickets.

In the 1950's and 60's, Mrs. Saltzman, the former Countess von Francken-Sierstorpff, was active in charitable work, organizing benefits for New York institutions including the Boys Athletic Leaguee, the Goddard Neighborhood House and the Association for the Help of Retarded Children.