After her husband ( Ernest Hoschedé ) became bankrupt, and left in 1878 for Belgium, and after the death of Camille Monet in September 1879, and while Monet continued to live in the house in Vétheuil ; Alice Hoschedé ( 1844-1911 ), helped Monet to raise his two sons, Jean and Michel, by taking them to Paris to live alongside her own six children.

On top of that, Oliver North helped Carl Channell's tax-exempt organization, the " National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty ", to raise $ 10 million, by arranging numerous briefings for groups of potential contributors at the premises of the White House and by facilitating private visits and photo sessions with president Reagan for major contributors.

Photographer Stephen Wilkes ' series Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom ( 2006 ) captured the abandoned south side of Ellis Island and helped raise $ 6 million in funding from the United States Congress towards restoration of that area.

A spurious legend has it that the invention of the game saved an ancient city in time of war, and its widespread popularity helped raise funds to build the Great Wall of China.

She also has helped with breast cancer awareness ; in September 2008 she participated in the Stand Up to Cancer telethon, to help raise funds to accelerate cancer research.

He set a standard for scientific and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality.

He lived in the same house as his brother Fergus McDuck and helped Fergus and his wife Downy O ' Drake to raise their children.

Yuri was the third of four children, and his elder sister helped raise him while his parents worked.

* The development of medical insulin during the 1920s helped raise the life expectancy of diabetics to three times of what it had been earlier.

The missions of the Foundation and its partner, the Better World Campaign have also helped raise awareness of issues amongst global policy makers and the public.

Washington helped raise funds to establish and operate hundreds of small community schools and institutions of higher educations for blacks.

When Gibbs submitted his long paper on the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances to the Academy, both Elias Loomis and Hubert Anson Newton protested that they did not understand Gibbs's work at all, but they helped to raise the money needed to pay for the typesetting of the many equations and mathematical symbols in the paper.

At the start of the American Civil War, Wallace was appointed state adjutant general and helped raise troops in Indiana.

" Previously, he and Stewart had helped raise funds for the defense of Britain.

Phoenix deeply cares about Achilles, whom he had helped raise as a child: (" So you, Achilles-great godlike Achilles I made you my son, I tried, so someday you might fight disaster off my back.

Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him.

In addition to the above Olmsted helped to raise three colored ( African American ) regiments in New York City and organized a fair which raised one million dollars for the United States Sanitary Commission.

Sachin Tendulkar devoted all of nine hours to the 12-hour Coca-Cola-NDTV Support My School telethon on 18 September 2011 that helped raise 7 crore – 2 crore more than the target – for from the creation of basic facilities, particularly toilets for girl students, in 140 government schools across the country.

Many of the corporate raiders of the 1980s were onetime clients of Michael Milken, whose investment banking firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert helped raise blind pools of capital which corporate raiders could use to make legitimate attempts to take over companies and provide high-yield debt financing of the buyouts.

Matthau also helped raise his stepchildren, Aram Saroyan and Lucy Saroyan.

This helped the adult literacy rate raise from 35 % to 55 %.

Bevan was largely responsible for the distribution of strike pay in Tredegar and the formation of the Council of Action, an organisation that helped to raise money and provided food for the miners.

Sheen initially endorsed New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson in the 2008 U. S. Presidential Election, and helped raise funds for his campaign.

Proceeds from the sale of the statues helped raise money to build the full statue.

She helped to set up artificial fish ponds to raise carp, which had disappeared from the local diet.

By supporting local commercial banks, micro-business banks, equity funds and leasing facilities, the EBRD has helped finance over 1 million smaller projects.

During the War as a member of CEMA ( Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts ) Keynes helped secure government funds to maintain both companies while their venues were shut.

He helped get funds for barracks, a hospital, school and church.

Using the remainder of the Rockefeller funds, Williams moved to New Orleans in 1939 to write for the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), a federally funded program begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt which was created to put people back to work and helped many artists, musicians and writers survive during the Great Depression.

" The Duke also served as godfather to one of van Eyck's children, supported his widow upon the painter's death, and years later helped one of his daughters with the funds required to enter a convent.

A massive influx of foreign direct investment funds helped tame inflation ( from 5, 000 % a year in 1989 to single digits by 1993 ) and improved long-stagnant productivity, though at the cost of considerable unemployment.

These relationships later helped him to solicit substantial funds for his chimpanzee projects.

Ultimately, Schwarzenegger and other bodybuilders featured in the film helped to raise funds to complete production, and it was released in 1977.

Lardner held strong left-wing views and during the Spanish Civil War he helped raise funds for the Republican cause.

The Community Action Committee continued its plan of revitalization and helped establish Lakeview's own free health clinic ( though as of fall 2006, the clinic is in dire need of funds, staff, and supplies ), and brought a police precinct with bicycle mounted policemen to help lower the crime.

This church helped start Covenant Cedars and still helps with funds.

Known as the Bernard Daly Educational Fund, the funds have helped over 1600 Lake County students to attend college.

Shortly after this event the new theatre was destroyed by fire ; despite his infirmities, Smetana helped to raise funds for the rebuilding.

She helped run a Naval Auxiliary Canteen and toured frequently to raise funds.

Oklahoman wildcatter C. M. ( Dad ) Joiner was drilling his third well in 1930 and the town of Overton helped raise the funds he needed to drill.

By May 1952, despite being in a period of great austerity, LANT had raised over £ 4, 000 towards the work, and the involvement of the Royal Engineers, who helped with the reconstruction of Chadbury Lock as a training exercise, increased public awareness, and enabled further public appeals for funds to be made.

1972 also saw Princess Anne becoming a patron of the Trust, an action which brought the Trust into media limelight, and helped raise funds.

Young opposed the Vietnam War, helped enact legislation that established a U. S. Institute for peace, established the Chattahoochee River National Park and negotiated federal funds for MARTA and the Atlanta Highways.

He raised large sums in Europe, but instead of only handling the funds, he helped the railroads reorganize and achieve greater efficiencies.

For practical purposes, though, the original Virginians rarely ventured far inland to what was then known as " The Virginia Wilderness ", although the concept itself helped renew the interest of investors, and additional funds enabled an expanded effort, known as the Third Supply.