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Fundraising or fund-raising is the process of seeking and gathering voluntary financial contributions by engaging individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies. Although fundraising typically refers to efforts to gather money for non-profit organizations, it is sometimes used to refer to the identification and ...
A charitable organization[ 1] or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good ). The legal definition of a charitable organization (and of charity) varies between countries and in some instances regions of ...
A grassroots movement is one that uses the people in a given district, region or community as the basis for a political or economic movement. [ 1] Grassroots movements and organizations use collective action from the local level to implement change at the local, regional, national, or international levels. Grassroots movements are associated ...
MERCY Malaysia was founded by Dr Jemilah Mahmood in 1999 in response to the conflict in Kosovo. Finding no pre-existing organisation that could sponsor her to volunteer her medical services there, she and a group of friends registered MERCY Malaysia with the Registrar of Societies with the objective of providing medical relief. [ 1]
Nazi Germany, [ i] officially known as the German Reich[ j] and later the Greater German Reich, [ k] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, [ l] meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim ...
Terrorism financing is the provision of funds or providing financial support to individual terrorists or non-state actors. [ 1] Most countries have implemented measures to counter terrorism financing (CTF) often as part of their money laundering laws. Some countries and multinational organisations have created a list of organisations that they ...
Major video game publishers including Electronic Arts and Take-Two will likely stave off a big hit from the strike by voice actors and motion-capture artists due to their in-house studios and the ...
Fourth Party System. United States presidential election results between 1896 and 1928. Blue shaded states usually voted for the Democratic Party, while red shaded states usually voted for the Republican Party. The Fourth Party System was the political party system in the United States from about 1896 to 1932 that was dominated by the ...