I know how you will all remember how he relentlessly hounded the administration, faculty and staff until finally they wrote the donation check".
The group was asked not to mention the mayor's name, and when a local paper wrote about the donation, Ms. Saunders received a chastising phone call.
(In 2003, Interstate, still the subject of city and federal investigations, donated $1,500 to Mr. Donovan's campaign. He returned it after Newsday wrote about the donation a year later).
"[H]elp give your children the gift of a Wisconsin that we can all be proud of," she wrote in the donation email.
"The proceeds from your donation will go towards getting Noah the best care possible, as well as helping keep our family afloat while we focus on little Noah's treatment and comfort," Massé writes on the donation page.
Despite these benefits, corporations can write off the donations as charitable contributions.
As of this writing, the donations to Rachel's birthday wish total $1,265,823 from nearly 32,000 people around the world.
In return, you get to write-off the donation from your taxes, and you're given a "holiday voucher" to sweeten the deal.
All the donating couples, who were not reimbursed, gave their informed written consent for the donation of the immature oocytes and supernumerary embryos (Supporting file S1: Materials and Methods, Figure S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7).
As I was writing this story, the donation counter kept going up.
