It is expected the new 2014-20 EU funding will offer a mix of structural and social – hard and soft – funding, providing projects have majority control in the hands of the third sector.
While it's true that soft funding has limited progress in biomaterials, it is also true, ironically, that advances in the biomedical application of biomaterials are still outpacing funding, Marcolongo says.
The HEU, South Africa for example, only received university funding for the Director's position and was otherwise reliant on soft-funding.
Starting in late 1994 he worked with Democratic Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold on campaign finance reform; their McCain-Feingold bill would attempt to put limits on "soft money", funds that corporations, unions, and other organizations could donate to political parties, which would then be funneled to political candidates in circumvention of "hard money" donation limits.
He said that if Mr. Gore was serious, he should unilaterally renounce soft money fund-raising.
Eight years later, President Bill Clinton carried soft money fund-raising to new, unseemly heights.
When asked if he had discussed future soft money fund-raising with Republican party leaders, Mr. Rowland responded, "Not really".
Democrats have run about even with Republicans in soft money fund-raising, but they lag behind Republicans in regulated donations.
The experts cited the work of the Mexican NGO El Poder Del Consumidor, which successfully fought for taxes on soft drinks, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
