Sentence examples for usual donations from inspiring English sources
It is the week before Christmas at the UK's busiest food bankand there are seasonal additions to the usual donations of food boxes.
The early indications, according to more than 30 interviews with philanthropy executives, researchers and consultants, are that, in general, the gifts by individuals to relief efforts are being made on top of, not instead of, their usual donations.
As millions of dollars pour into emergency relief earmarked for victims of the World Trade Center disaster, New York City institutions from soup kitchens to the Metropolitan Museum of Art are afraid that the usual donations they count on to meet expenses may be vanishing.
When he got a letter last week soliciting for the Roman Catholic bishop's annual fund-raising drive on Long Island, Gene Zirkel did not respond with his usual donation.
The Mercy Center in Asbury Park, which supplies about 7,000 families a year with food, clothing and shelter is also finding the demand heavier than usual but donations lagging, said Sister Carol Ann Henry.
And in 2009 UNRWA was clamoring even more than usual for donations.
The Salvation Army, which operates 1,300 thrift shops in the United States, said the tough economy had led consumers to hold onto their old clothes longer and to use Web sites like eBay and Craigslist to make money from unwanted items, suppressing the usual flow of donations.
This year my family has decided to avoid the usual online petitions and donations of gold coins that disappear into the purses of NGOs.
Meals on Wheels America says it has seen a 500percentt increase in volunteer signups and 50 times more online donations than usual in the 24 hours since President Donald Trump's administration proposed eliminating the program's federal funding.
By January, the library had received $20,000 in donations, doubling its usual annual fund-raising haul.
Correction: December 6 , 2002 Friday Because of an editing error, an article yesterday about a hearing on the constitutionality of a new law limiting political donations misidentified the usual jurisdiction of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, one of three members of a special appeals court considering the question.
