In a press release, the campaign contrasted Sanders' small funders with the major backers of Clinton, who led him by three points in the final poll before the Iowa caucuses, a survey released by the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg on Saturday night.
Change Philanthropy: Candid Stories of Foundations Maximizing Results through Social Justice profiles a mix of national, regional and small funders, from the Ford Foundation to the Global Fund for Women to the Jacobs Family Foundation, have moved beyond a focus solely on services, such as homeless shelters and hospitals, to one aimed at helping people influence the context in which they live.
Second, small funders may lead to unorthodox sources of support, sometimes with unique requirements (such as, Converse recalled anecdotally, translating work into the operational language of the grantor).
Researchers are turning instead to smaller funders.
In Europe you have to persuade many smaller funders, all of whom have different procedures, priorities, budget cycles, and even languages, and then coax them to work together.
Further work is required to understand how smaller funders, including charitable funders, can support open access.
However, with a smaller domestic pool of peer reviewers, small country research funders have to look abroad for the majority of the peer review effort expended in making decisions about which research (and which researchers) to fund.
Lessig also planned to use his speech in Louisiana to argue that politicians' reliance on a small group of funders denies equal citizenship in a way that resembles racial discrimination in voting.
Though the average yearly revenue from gifts to the college from 2011 to 2013 (seventy-two million dollars) was seven times the amount that most liberal-arts colleges receive annually, heavy dependence upon a small number of funders puts Bard in an inherently precarious situation.
Let's face it: many alternative small business lenders, funders and brokers have developed a bad reputation.
