Sentence examples for secured donations from inspiring English sources

She also secured donations for the family's first Christmas in the United States, in 2002.

It was mainly during this time that leading American museums secured donations and, to a lesser extent, made acquisitions to help fill gaps in their Southeast Asian collections.

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.

She was not only successful in raising funds, but she also secured donations in kind and services.

By late February of 1984, Mr. Bushey had mapped out the route, recruited Mr. Jarris and Mr. Rose, and secured donations from skiing gear companies.

Still, she said, volunteers do "a wonderful job" of securing donations that manage to elude the professionals.

The following year I sent a mass e-mail to my contacts list to secure donations for a mental health walk.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr Priscilla Chan, are donating $25m which will go to the CDC Foundation, a private, non-profit organisation securing donations to help the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In his G2 column on Monday, Mark Ravenhill argued that it was unhealthy for our arts institutions to "dance around" the wealthy in order to secure donations, as it must skew their judgment.

Last week, after securing donations of the ingredients as well as packaging and trucking for trailer loads of frozen bagels, the family arranged to produce bagels for survivors of Hurricane Katrina.