Sentence examples for securing donations from inspiring English sources

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

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.

The money will go to the CDC Foundation, a private, non-profit organization securing donations to help the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) fight the epidemic in west Africa, which has claimed more than 4,000 lives.

We're secure for the next three years, because that's the funding we've been allocated from the different charity providers, but beyond that is a big question mark, so we're very much part of a working and developing service, but a big part of our work is also securing donations and ongoing funding.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.