He chaired a fund-raising drive by students, and then was named to a committee that supported citywide efforts to outlaw restrictive covenants, the legal means by which minorities were prohibited from purchasing real estate in predominantly white neighborhoods.

Mask chaired a fund-raising drive to aid families left destitute by the disaster, while Mrs. Ralph Worthington and Mrs. C. C. Groblewski coordinated donations of clothing made by the Red Cross.

In December 2006, the PSO announced the launch of an $ 80 million capital fund-raising drive, after the initial $ 29. 5 million boost from the Simmons family.

Falwell on the water slide. The September 21, 1987 issue of Time magazine noted that Jerry Falwell " plunged " down a " hellish " water slide called the " Typhoon " with his suit on, fulfilling " a promise made during a fund-raising drive that netted $ 20 million for the debt-ridden PTL ".

In 1928, the main tower was restored after the mayor of Osaka concluded a highly successful fund-raising drive.

In April 2005, the campus went through its first intensive major fund-raising drive.

The Legion organises a fund-raising drive each year in the weeks before Remembrance Sunday, during which artificial red poppies, meant to be worn on clothing, are offered to the public in return for a charitable donation.

The Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University awarded their alumnus with the Murrow Award for top leaders in the communication industry in 1999 ; Jackson was a charter member of the WSU Foundation, founded in 1979, provided scholarship money to the Murrow School and chaired the fund-raising drive for the school's alumni center.

The hall has just been rebuilt, after a 5 year fund-raising drive by villagers ..

Stone became close to John Bingham, the commander of the Ballysillan Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ), to which the RHC was very close, and the two worked closely on a fund-raising drive for their groups.

After a lengthy fund-raising drive, the school bought the adjoining carriage house and rebuilt it.

His campaign even attracted the attention of Eleanor Roosevelt, who conducted a national fund-raising drive for him.

On 8 June 2006, then-zoo director Jeff Williamson announced a major fund-raising drive over the next 10 years to update the zoo's infrastructure and many of its aging exhibits.

Supporting activities -- business management, public relations, fund-raising -- offer presidents one of their best chances to buy freedom for attention to education.

* Give Others a Chance, fund-raising to buy prostheses for the disabled during the first “ Together to the Pole ” expedition.

In response the Alabama Chapter of ATOS began a fund-raising effort to buy the Alabama.

After five years of private and community-wide fund-raising, as well as individual investments by Doc's surviving family members, the Edgerton Explorit Center was officially dedicated on September 9, 1995.

Dr. William Belton Murrah was the college's first president, and Bishop Charles Betts Galloway of the United Methodist Church organized the college's early fund-raising efforts.

The Brown Foundation Challenge, a fund-raising program designed to encourage annual gifts, was launched in 1976 and ended in 1996 having raised $ 185 million ($ million ).

This was the largest fund-raising effort undertaken at the time, and will provide money for the museum's endowment, a new education building, jaguar / mountain lion habitat, and an animal retirement facility.

Another round of fund-raising in 1681 – 84 was again spent on the roof, repairing the Presbytery vault.

In a fund-raising speech on 5 October 1843 at the Manchester Athenæum ( a charitable institution serving the poor ), Dickens urged workers and employers to join together to combat ignorance with educational reform, and realized in the days following that the most effective way to reach the broadest segment of the population with his social concerns about poverty and injustice was to write a deeply-felt Christmas narrative rather than polemical pamphlets and essays.

In his autobiography, Liddy describes an " Ellsberg neutralization proposal " originating from Howard Hunt, which involved drugging Ellsberg with LSD, by dissolving it in his soup, at a fund-raising dinner in Washington in order to " have Ellsberg incoherent by the time he was to speak " and thus " make him appear a near burnt-out drug case " and " discredit him ".

Priestley had a deep love of classical music, and in 1941 he played an important part in organising and supporting a fund-raising campaign on behalf of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which was struggling to establish itself as a self-governing body after the withdrawal of Sir Thomas Beecham.

The monument was originally planned to mark Nelson's victory at the Battle of the Nile, but fund-raising was not completed until after his death and it was instead dedicated to England's greatest Naval hero.

In 1996, the high school reconstruction was begun and the school is now equipped with new laboratories, classrooms, and ethernet connections, supported mainlyly by bond issues and rigorous fund-raising by the San Marino Schools Endowment.

The de Breyne extension was made possible by a generous response from the businessman André de Breyne and other fund-raising efforts.

She was eventually invited to organize a fund-raising dinner for the 1972 presidential campaign of U. S. Senator Ed Muskie of Maine.

Due to the growth of the museum, a need for increased fund-raising, and more volunteer involvement, a historical society was founded in 1987.

Also according to Black, the GM chief continued to personally fund and organize fund-raising for the National Association of Manufacturers, which was critical of the New Deal.

During this time, Gibb was also involved in promoting fund-raising for the memorial dedicated to RAF Bomber Command in Green Park, London.

" The issue was eventually quietened so as to protect Chabad fund-raising interests.

Early in 1882 he and his brother Willie were sent to Australia on a fund-raising mission which was a success in both political and personal terms ; in 1883 he and his brother married into the prosperous Irish-Australian Dalton family and became friends with James Dalton and whom he spent much of his time with.

The announcement inspired a spontaneous six-hour parade in Mexico City ; it was followed by a national fund-raising campaign to compensate the companies.

* Also see Rose, Gregory F. " The Swarmy Life and Times of the NCLC ," National Review, March 30, 1979, and Reich, September 21, 1977: " Three and four years ago, the tiny U. S. Labor Party, preaching Marxist revolution, was engaged in a bitter fight with the Communist Party over which was a purer representative of left-wing tradition .< p >" But now the Labor Party, under the same leadership, has moved to the right, has joined with persons in the South who are heirs to George C. Wallace's American Independent Party tradition, is soliciting help from orthodox Republicans and even had an information table at a big GOP fund-raising dinner in the Biltmore here last month.

In November 1919 a fund-raising campaign was needed to avoid a move to Leeds.

Even though Roberts ' prosperous lifestyle, unorthodox fund-raising techniques, and the expanse of his organizations raised criticism and controversy, there was no credible evidence of malfeasance while he was in charge, he did not have sex-and-money scandals like some other televangelists, and he was not named among the six prosperity teachers in the financial investigations launched by U. S. Senator Charles Grassley ( R-Iowa ) in 2007.

A fund-raising campaign was launched in 2008 for the redevelopment of the old school campus, which targets on HKD 380 million.

The Livestrong wristband ( stylized as LIVESTRONG ) is a yellow silicone gel bracelet launched in May 2004 as a fund-raising item for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, founded by cyclist and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong.

Jischke also led the way in the " Campaign for Purdue ," a $ 1. 5 billion fund-raising operation, launched in September 2002 in support of the strategic plan.

Late June, the SMTH community launched a fund-raising campaign for a student who fell seriously ill.

This fund-raising scheme followed " Goldbond ", a weekly draw that was launched three years earlier.

In December 1915 a fund-raising effort was launched at the Carnegie Hall, at which he delivered an emotional appeal which raised a million dollars in donations.