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The home secretary, Theresa May, is to pledge up to £15m of new funding to provide health-based alternatives for the 4,000 people a year who spend time in detention in police cells under the Mental Health Act.

In 2010, just ahead of the première of the film "The Social Network," which portrayed the origins of Facebook in an unflattering light, Zuckerberg announced that he would pledge up to a hundred million dollars to the Newark public-school system — his first visible foray into philanthropy.

Newton has also adopted a new parental-involvement policy that calls for parents to pledge up to one hour a day at the school, helping out in classes or at after-hours events, in return for a chance to win raffle prizes like a flat-screen television or a microwave.

Their project will get funded if folks pledge up to $5,000 on Kickstarter, so if you need a nice little plaid number for your yearly neighborhood rugby tournament, this may be a great place to start.

Reuters reported earlier this week that at least 16 Republicans in the new Congress have forgone the pledge, up from only six in the outgoing Congress.

The UK joins the US, which has signalled it may pledge up to $5bn; France has committed $1.4bn, and the Nordic countries have committed $750m.

So far £148m has been pledged up until 2015.

George Soros, a currency-trader-turned-philanthropist, has pledged up to $15m to anti-Bush organisations.

The city has pledged up to $100 million plus a city-owned location for the proposed campus.

Sidney Frank, the liquor importer, did that by pledging up to $10 million to match others' gifts.

Nevertheless, the World Bank recently pledged up to $3bn£1.9bnbn) to Kenya for maternal, child and adolescent health.