Ford pledged roughly $12 million to recovery and reconstruction after Hurricane Katrina, about half of which it has already disbursed, and has put $10 million into a program to support artists that it is underwriting together with the Rockefeller, Rasmussen and Prudential foundations.
But from it sprang church initiatives across the country, which have disbursed many thousands of pounds helping hundreds of projects for the disadvantaged.
UNICEF will transfer the funds to the Ministry which will then disburse it together with its own contribution to the districts on quarterly basis.
Each time that Cilins flew from France to Guinea, he brought gifts — MP3 players, cell phones, perfumes — which he disbursed among his contacts.
Quest mushers pay a $2,000 entry fee and vie for a piece of the $115,000 purse, which is disbursed among the top 15 finishers.
The award is up to a maximum of $8,600 during the fall/spring terms, which is disbursed on a monthly basis; and up to a maximum of $3,000 during the summer term, which is disbursed all at once, based on your enrollment and financial need.
She has mixed with global leaders in the fight against poverty as the chairwoman of Accion, a leading microfinance lender, which has disbursed more than $23 billion around the globe.
Among the most criticized subsidies are the $5.2 billion a year in "direct payments," which are disbursed to farmers even now when they are reaping unprecedented earnings from strong harvests and record-high grain prices.
The biggest funder of geoengineering research has been a nonprofit fund supported by billionaire Bill Gates, which has disbursed some $8.5 million for research and meetings since 2007.
These schools, which all disbursed more than $10 million in Perkins loans that year, include five Ivy League-caliber private universities, three state flagship universities, and a major for-profit chain.
