These sales, combined the efforts of the Archbishop and diocesan priests to secure donations from around the Archdiocese, meant that by 1901 O'Reily was able to report that the debt had been reduced by three-quarters.
"Carrier pigeons have served honorably in World Wars I and II and, besides, those little messages on their backs--I mean, how can you get angry at that?" A different reaction came from Mr. Piddles, a seven-year-old Racing Homer pigeon, who briefly worked for Clinton in 2010 and claims the Secretary of State used him to secure donations from the Algerian government to the Clinton Foundation.
Some public institutions - notably Tate, Serpentine and Whitechapel - have secured donations from the new collectors.
Pete secured donations from a nonprofit organization, and one of the clinic's nurses recruited a volunteer respiratory therapist from her church to help treat the patients.
Some schools have secured donations from local businesses to help replace the missing tubas, but others have had to borrow instruments from nearby schools, or simply soldier on without sousaphones.
When she ran a half marathon in aid of First Story – a childhood literacy charity she has supported since its foundation by Katie Waldegrave (daughter of Lord Waldegrave) and author William Fiennes (the youngest son of Nathaniel Fiennes, the 21st Baron Saye and Sele) – she secured donations from a host of City and establishment figures.
The Tate, which has only one other van Dyck in its collection, Portrait of an Unknown Lady Dressed in Blue, had targeted the painting for years, finally securing donations from the National Art Collections Fund, the Patrons of British art and the philanthropist Christoper Ondaatje, to acquire it for £450,000.
Szigeti came to his friend's aid by securing donations from the American Society of Composers and Publishers to pay for Bartók's medical treatment, and then, together with conductor and compatriot Fritz Reiner, persuaded Serge Koussevitzky to commission from Bartók what eventually became his much-beloved Concerto for Orchestra.
His Kickstarter page, which managed to secure donations worth $55,492 from a crowd of 6,911 people, simply read "I'm making potato salad".
She was instrumental in establishing a state-of-the-art midwifery school and maternity hospital, donating time and money and helping to secure medical donations from sources in the United States.
Of course, boiled down, the goal of alumni relations is to create an empowered alumni network and, in turn, secure financial donations from graduates — ideally increasing those annually (whaaaat?!?) — putting the school in a better position to attract brainy new students.
