Sentence examples for spent donations from inspiring English sources

The Washington organization, which collected $93.5 million last year, is under investigation by a federal grand jury, which is delving into the way it spent donations.

They are investigating how the foundation spent donations it raised for projects at the monument and whether it followed federal guidelines on competitive bidding for certain contracts.

It was an audit into her bookkeeping practices, not an investigation into whether she spent donations on travel, clothes, jewelry and stereo equipment.

The inspector general of the Interior Department, which oversees the Park Service, is investigating how the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Islandonationsitn spent donations it raised for projects at the monument and whether it followed federal guidelines on competitive bidding for certain contracts, the official said.

Mr. Kilpatrick was also accused of spending donations to a charity, the Kilpatrick Civic Fund, on personal expenses like golf equipment and yoga lessons.

It added that "until the government frees up the land needed, we are forced to spend donations on replacing tents and other piecemeal measures designed to help people get by in overcrowded camps".

One way to verify that certain groups are legitimate — and to see how they spend donations — is to check the Charity Navigator site (charitynavigator.org) or the Better Business Bureau (bbb.org/charity).

More than half (62%) of those surveyed said they would feel confident that a charity spends donations well if staff did not travel in first class and 55% of respondents said they would feel confident if the organisation was mostly ran by volunteers.

While we understand -- and share -- the desire to spend donations quickly, the fact is that spending decisions made hastily following a disaster may not serve the needs of survivors.

But records and interviews show that fund-raisers from Texans for a Republican Majority who were paid with corporate money solicited donations on behalf of individual candidates backed by the committee, which also spent corporate donations on fund-raising events, polling and a voter identification project.

He also spent campaign donations on personal items, including iPads, clothes, football tickets and family vacations, the indictment said.