The organization regularly receives a smaller sum of donations, and brings in less over-all revenue, than the Boy Scouts.
The good news is that the sum of donations from Jamie Dimon's firm is small relative to the total fund-raising of Columbia University.
The reporter, James Bush, made the connection between a relatively large sum of donations to Ms. Nicastro's campaign for re-election and Mr. Colacurcio, who has been lobbying the council for several years to allow him to expand the parking lot.
The fact that both the number and total amount of donations summed up in an unprecedented way was of course induced by the dimension of the disaster.
The Internet makes it easy to propagate inflated claims after a disaster and collect vast sums of donations from well meaning people.
On Sunday, as he makes a $350 million gift to his alma mater — by far the largest in its history — the New York City mayor, along with the president of the university, will disclose the staggering sum of his donations to Johns Hopkins over the past four decades: $1.1 billion.
FROM BLOOMBERG TO JOHNS HOPKINS, A $1.1 BILLION THANK-YOU | Michael R. Bloomberg, the New York City mayor, made a $350 million gift to Johns Hopkins University on Sunday, bringing the sum of his donations over the past four decades to $1.1 billion, Michael Barbarbo reports in The New York Times.
The entire filing can be viewed here: Along with the report, the super PAC included a cover letter to the F.E.C. Dear Sirs and Sirettes, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow (ABTT) would like it entered into the record that as of January 30th , 2012 the sum total of our donations was $1,023,121.24.
As a result, he gained large numbers of volunteers, unprecedented sums of Internet donations and the mantle of being the only viable and veritable antiwar candidate.
They are often corporate managers or family members who had endowed the foundation with a large sum of money and used the donation to reduce, say, a large estate-tax bill.
It came at the end of a particularly dismal week: A few days earlier, Seiji Maehara, Japan's foreign minister, had resigned, purportedly for having received a small sum as political donation from a long-time foreign resident of Kyoto.
