One highly popular and respected General Agency program is the “ Week of Compassion ,” named for the special offering to fund the program when it began in the 1950s.

Though it was a private institution to be located in the middle of urban Boston, the new institute had a mission that matched the intent of the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act to fund institutions " to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes ", and was thus named a land-grant school.

The fort is named Fort Dobbs in honor of North Carolina Governor Arthur Dobbs, who persuaded the North Carolina legislature to fund the construction a year earlier.

She left a bequest of $ 20 million to New York University to fund an institute for European studies, which is named in honor of Remarque.

Two days later, a London-based hedge fund, SISU Capital, was named as the potential new owner.

The Old Westbury Fund is a hedge fund that is named after the town.

The city was named after Johnathan Miles, who donated $ 5, 000 to a fund for an extension of a railroad track.

Peggy Bickley, a native of Bernice in Union Parish, Louisiana, at first hated living in dusty west Texas but in time became an energetic civic booster through the Order of the Eastern Star, the Denver City Museum, the Yoakum County / Cecil Bickley Library ( named for her husband ), annual American Cancer Society fund drive, the First United Methodist Church, and the Denver City Chamber of Commerce, which named her " Outstanding Citizen of Denver City " in 1984.

The theatre was opened in 1969 and was named after the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation which helped fund its construction.

Carleton later named a library fund after Heywood, and the Heywood Society is the name for a group of donors who have named Carleton in their wills.

Spaggiari first denied his involvement in the break-in, then acknowledged it but claimed that he was working to fund a secret political organization named the " Catena " ( Italian for Chain ) that seems to have existed only in his fantasy.

This was the Helen Prideaux Memorial fund, named after Frances Helen Prideaux M. B and B. S.

In 2006, a Geert Hofstede Chair for Cultural Diversity was established at Maastricht University, and in 2010, the School of Business and Economics launched a fund named after Geert to encourage activities around multicultural interactions and research.

* A fund raiser for the Alzheimer's Association is named in her honor by her daughter, Yasmin Aga Khan, who has been the hostess for these events and a major sponsor of Alzheimer's Disease charities and awareness programs.

Bob Barker's DJ & T Foundation, founded in 1994 and named after his wife and mother, has contributed millions of dollars for animal neutering programs and to fund animal rescue and park facilities all over the United States.

He gave a televised " Checkers speech " named after his cocker spaniel ; denying he had a slush fund but admitted that, " there is one thing that I did get as a gift that I'm not going to give back .” The gift was a black and white cocker spaniel, Checkers, given to his daughters.

Meriwether opened his third hedge fund venture, named JM Advisors Management, also based in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 2010.

In what came to be known as the Muldergate Scandal so named after Dr Connie Mulder, the Cabinet minister at the centre of it, Vorster was implicated in the use of a secret slush fund to establish The Citizen, the only major English language newspaper that was favourable to the National Party.

After the festival founder's sudden death in 1988, a fund was initiated and named after him ( Hubert Bals Fund ), used for supporting filmmakers from developing countries.

The Consolidated Fund was so named as it consolidated these existing accounts together, and ensured proper parliamentary oversight of the spending of the executive – it was defined as " one fund into which shall flow every stream of public revenue and from which shall come the supply of every service ".

In the spring of 1729, Allen was named alongside lawyer Andrew Hamilton as a trustee for the purchasing and building fund for the Philadelphia state house.

In 1990, Operation Blessing began moving from individual assistance to helping fund outreach centers across the U. S. who provide a broad, community impact through their partnerships with local ministries, food pantries, shelters and more.

In 1984, he was approached to sell $ 300, 000 worth of cannabis to a Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) agent looking to fund and arm the Mujahideen in their fight against the Soviets ( Operation Cyclone ).

( One of the ways that cooperatives and their member-owners participate is through Operation Roundup, whereby a member can voluntarily have their electric bill rounded up to the next highest dollar with the difference placed in a fund to be distributed to local charities.

Under the auspices of Global Exchange, she pressured the US government to set up a fund for Afghan families harmed in Operation Enduring Freedom.

Beyond this, the government was principally able to fund only short, educational films, the most notorious of which were the agitki-propaganda films intended to " agitate ", or energize and enthuse, the masses to participate fully in approved Soviet activities, and deal effectively with those who remained in opposition to the new order.

Sociologist, author, and financial journalist Alfred W. Jones is credited with coining the phrase " hedged fund ", in contrast to prior nomenclatures, and is often erroneously credited with creating the first hedge fund structure in 1949.

Jones referred to his fund as being " hedged ", a term then commonly used on Wall Street, to describe how the fund managed risk exposure from overall market movement.

Within global macro strategies, there are further sub-strategies including " systematic diversified ", in which the fund trades in diversified markets, or " systematic currency ", in which the fund trades in currency markets.

The EU's Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers ( AIFMD ) was passed by the EU Parliament on November 11, 2010 and is the first EU directive focused on " alternative investment fund managers ", including hedge fund managers.

Through this company, Lennon released a tribute song and EP, " Lucy ", honoring the memory of Lucy Vodden, the little girl who inspired the song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, with 50 % of the proceeds going to fund Lupus research.

William H. Simon characterized pension fund socialism as " a form of market socialism ", concluding that it was promising but perhaps with prospects more limited than those envisioned by its enthusiasts.

In 1949, Rockwell donated an original Post cover, " April Fool ", to be raffled off in a library fund raiser.

The state governments also manage and fund " decentralised institutions of the federation ", such as CONALEP schools.

In " Loan-a Lisa ", Lisa uses $ 50 to help Nelson fund his bicycle company, which becomes a success.

Gollancz's letter called for a negotiated end to the Korean War and the creation of an international fund " to turn swords into ploughshares ", readers were asked to send a postcard to Gollancz with the simple word ' yes '.

The council gathered a thousand churchmen to authorize a tax on their annual incomes, the " Albigensian tenth ", to support the Crusade, though permanent reforms intended to fund the papacy in perpetuity foundered.

Generally there are contribution boxes for local operating expenses, a Kingdom Hall fund for helping Witnesses around the world to build Kingdom Halls, and a general fund for the " Worldwide Work ", which includes the printing of literature, organization of conventions, supporting missionaries and disaster relief, and other operating expenses of the organization.

Duvalier used this " non-fiscal account ", established decades earlier, as a tobacco monopoly, but he later expanded it to include the proceeds from other government enterprises and used it as a slush fund for which no balance sheets were ever kept.

The sunk cost fallacy is in game theory sometimes known as the " Concorde Fallacy ", referring to the fact that the British and French governments continued to fund the joint development of Concorde even after it became apparent that there was no longer an economic case for the aircraft.

" Bogle wrote that his inspiration for starting an index fund came from three sources, all of which confirmed his 1951 research: Paul Samuelson's 1974 paper, " Challenge to Judgment ", Charles Ellis ' 1975 study, " The Loser's Game ", and Al Ehrbar's 1975 Fortune magazine article on indexing.