Setting up funding to secure watersheds for hydroelectricity or flood control provides a host of secondary benefits, from ecotourism to clean drinking water.
I was also told that around the time of the earthquake they set up fund-raising operations in Britain, to tap the Pakistani diaspora there.
The company, Convio Inc., based in Austin, Tex., makes software that helps clients set up fund-raising Web sites, create e-mail databases and process and track online donations.
This month, the Obama campaign is staging a "Grass-roots Fund-Raising Challenge," a contest for Obama supporters who have set up fund-raising Web sites for him, with the goal of raising 20,000 contributions by the end of September.
The government and central bank have set up funds to make it easier for financial institutions to unload these stocks.
IKB Deutsche and SachsenLB set up funds that were triple or quintuple the size of their capital on hand.
Birding blogs have defended his right to dispense with a "terrible menace" and have set up funds to help pay for his defense.
Birding blogs have defended him for protecting an endangered shorebird, the piping plover, and have set up funds to help pay for his defense.
As a result, 18 months ago, three three-year pilot projects were set up, funded by the Home Office and managed by voluntary organisations.
Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nigeria and Angola have all either set up funds recently or are looking at doing so.Many of these funds are trying to imitate the success of Norway's Government Pension fund, whose staff have been flying around the world dispensing advice.
