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I hope more people decide to become organ donors.

Aggregate aid is to the Ethiopian economy what Obama's fiscal stimulus was to the American economy: minus these injections, both economies would suffer catastrophically. The theatrical blustering of the Ethiopian government notwithstanding, donor countries have a make-or-break power over the Ethiopia's prosperity.

Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.

Living with a single kidney is almost exactly like living with two; the remaining kidney expands to take up the slack. (When kidneys fail, they generally fail together; barring trauma or cancer, there's not much advantage to a backup.) The main risk to the donor is the risk of any surgery.

One organ and tissue donor can save up to seven lives and enhance the lives of up to 75 others.

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.

My donor base and host base on both coasts was contacted by elected officials and asked to stop giving. The original promise to me from Schumer was that I would have no financial concerns. It went from that to Senator Schumer actually working against my ability to raise money.

Rich country leaders stood up and said they wanted to put children in school and save people from preventable diseases. What is the World Bank going to do to systematically embarrass donor governments that do not improve the quality of their aid in coming years?

I didn't bring my headphones, I'd watched the two movies they had played and I was just like, 'Can we please find a donor that wants to give us a private jet? This is not Okay.'

Many of the donor programs have not only been ineffective, they have harmed the economy. Cash is not the issue. What you need is investor confidence.

Frequently, gifts of this magnitude go to naming buildings or to give the donor visibility on campus. But this is a very unique gift.

I am extremely concerned that there will be donor fatigue, ... This is the fifth or sixth major disaster in a span of 18 months, and we worry and we pray that the American public will continue to come through.

Giving for the tsunami was literally off the charts. There may be an issue of donor fatigue, it's too early to tell, but it looks like giving for the Pakistan earthquake is more typical of the historical response by U.S. donors to international emergencies.

For these charities to attract and retain quality leaders, they need to pay them a reasonable salary. But I understand donor concerns. It's hard for them to reconcile the large salaries. But we tell donors to look at it in perspective of how the charity is doing. Are they meeting their goals? If you see a high CEO salary and an underperforming charity then, yes, it's better to steer clear.

I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them.

We are facing the real prospect in two months from now of another catastrophe which can be averted with the right kind of donor assistance.

He was a regular donor to the annual fund, at a nice level but not a major gift level. It's a fantastic surprise to get.

He might decide that for him it is time now to say I will be involved in politics, but I'm going to go out and make some money, now (that) a national donor base, national profile has been established.

People naturally are gonna feel a little bit of donor fatigue, where they have exhausted their resources.

KSBJ sponsors two Blood Drives each year. This is their 19th year to benefit the Blood Center. That's a very impressive record and we are so grateful for their efforts. They were even at the opening of The Woodlands Neighborhood Donor Center.

It is expected from humans that they nurture all the people dependent on them with love and affection, and it is expected from the recipient that he does not do anything against the wishes of the donor or guardian.

I think there is a reasonably good chance ... that people will congeal around a set of basic principles and elements for what will become an international program which can then be presented to the donor community over the next couple of months.

Over his presidency, President Bush has made great strides to increase foreign aid, so today's announcement of cuts to core development funding is a big disappointment. Although the US is the largest donor in the world, and US assistance had been on the increase, the US still lags behind other developed countries in that our contributions are small compared to the size of our federal budget and economy.

Our goal is to raise $35,000 because we have a donor who will match that amount.

Our target donor pool is individuals, families, businesses and organizations in Woodford County. 4-H really touches more people than just the current members.

I think he needs to do it for two good reasons. It will invigorate the Republican base, which he sorely needs to do if he has any chance to win the special election. And it sends a positive message to the donor community that he's not going to cut and run.

It is a concentrated time of the year where organizations like ours have people out in the community doing donor drives and letting people know about how many are waiting for organ and tissue transplants." ()

I think we will eventually follow in England's footsteps. Donor insemination is moving in the same direction as adoption did years ago. Family secrets are unhealthy, and disclosure is in the best interest of the child. People have the right to know their genetic history.

We appeal to the donor community to help us feed the livestock as it affects thousands of households.

I would not accept a donation from a donor who would make a condition. We're trying to set up an unconditional endowment to support Sioux Indian students.

We can't go to the donor conference ... and ask countries around the world to contribute in the form of grants if we have just decided to send a bill to Iraq, thereby encumbering their oil, which is their only resource, to pay us back in the future," ()

Well, we try to give the best care we can to the animals who need it. We're different from most shelters in that we have the volunteer and donor support to take care of bigger (medical) problems most shelters can't.

We expect a lot from tomorrow's donor conference. We hope to see the same response to Pakistan as to the tsunami, but we are far from there because the financing is far from adequate.

We find a kidney from a living donor tends to do better than a kidney from a cadaver donor, even if the cadaver is a perfect match.

This procedure has the potential of increasing the number of living donor transplant operations by one third to one half.

We still have not ruled out that possibility. The wait for a donor heart could be long, and we've definitely seen some improvement in her own heart.

There has been much less work done in Sri Lanka because of the political problem. It may be a challenge for some donor countries to accept some exceptions amid restrictions on whom to work with.

We urge the countries which have committed assistance to provide it and I've asked the United Nations to push donor countries to fulfill those commitments,

With this innovation, I can tell any patient who has a live donor and is medically eligible that they can be transplanted with a high likelihood of success.

With the many needs we have in our world today, I believe transparency, accountability and results are the most important characteristics that a donor should expect from a charitable organization. Maintaining these core values in our organization is not only vital for our donors, but also for our stewardship to the children we support.

We are awaiting a donor of a liver that will be a suitable match for my blood type, O positive, the most common type in this nation.

We spent four days looking for a non-expired synthetic graft worldwide and then all of sudden there was a 30-year-old female donor available and we went straight into surgery.

Control and reaction measures must be taken and we will be present to assist, with of course the support of donor countries, because their aid is indispensable.

Each day that passes, I think, above all, of the donor and her family whom I cannot thank enough.

Believe it or not, there are members of Congress who actually want to govern and get stuff done. Unfortunately, there are others whose agendas and strategies serve to advance their own interests and expand their donor base.

At present, we have 800,000 tablets provided by donor countries such as Australia, Japan and Singapore.

Concern about the possibility that blood transfusion or organ donation may have transmitted West Nile infection to recipients of organs from a single donor has prompted the ongoing investigation that is now under way,

The transplant center told us how important it was, just raising awareness that people need kidneys. There were 173 people on the waiting list, and now there's one less, ... That's 173 people who are waiting for a cadaveric donor because they don't have a family member who is a match.

The support of the international community is vital and it is essential that donor countries contribute necessary funds as soon as possible.

The standard for rejecting money is that the donor has risen to enough prominence that holding on to the money will hurt you at the polls. It's a very pragmatic, political standard.

The spirit of what Kirby Puckett had indicated with his wish to be an organ donor was consistent with who he was and his zest for life. What's encouraging to us is that his statement might encourage others to think about that choice for themselves.

We must be acutely aware that all that has been built up by the thousands of relief workers and hundreds of millions of dollars in donor contributions could be destroyed, and we could be on the brink of losing this huge humanitarian operation.

The virtues of donations are great because it helps the needy and at the same time it gives an opportunity to the donor to give the surplus to the people in need. It helps the needy to sustain himself.

It was tough. She was the type of person that made the most of it. She was the type of person who didn't like to talk to anybody, but knew she had obligations to do so to promote the donor program.

We're paying for that through our own donor base, through volunteers and grants.

We already have stringent regulations in place for tissue donor screening and for handling and processing tissue. These regulations are designed to protect both the tissue donor and recipient, and we expect people to follow these rules.

No single donor can face the enormous challenge of financing the basic infrastructure of the (African) continent.

When millions of dollars and thousands of humanitarian workers poured into Indonesia, we quickly faced the challenge of coordinating our own bureaucracy with the multitudes of approaches and priorities the donor community wanted to pursue.

Aid from Germany, the European Union and other donor countries must continue to finance infrastructure projects in all fields.

Our donations are down by at least $10,000. We're hurting for money. I know there's a lot of donor burnout. We do appreciate all the food and personal items that people donate but we need money to stay open.

Father's hot-button issue is donor intent. Foundations are too often taken in a radical direction.

Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.

We have shown that regenerative medicine techniques can be used to generate functional bladders that are durable. This suggests that regenerative medicine may one day be a solution to the shortage of donor organs in this country for those needing transplants.

There are growing pressures on us -- in part from the donor community -- to say there is a limit to what you can stand.

in-house reviewing our processes, comparing the donor records relating to the affected bags, reviewing records on our storage of the empty bags, full bags, you name it.

In 2001, the prices of medications have continued to fall rapidly, ... Even though antiretroviral drug prices have declined to around $500 per year, this is still far above what poor countries can afford without donor assistance.

In the coming weeks, we plan to hold a senior officials meeting of all partners in Washington to identify steps to achieve transparency, to improve donor coordination, to build capacity and develop containment strategies,

The biggest donor gets to name the park,

They become the second-largest donor to the orchestra behind the Fund for the Arts. It sure shows their loyalty to the 71 they were basically willing to put their money where their loyalty was.

It will just be a fun day and celebration from the growth that we've experienced here at the donor center. We can't thank a donor enough, actually, because they're giving something really almost more precious than money, they're giving a part of themselves and without them, what would we do? The patients wouldn't have the blood they need.

In Scotland, 13 patients have died in each of the last two years and many more have had to be removed from the liver transplant waiting list because they have become too unwell while waiting for a donor organ.

In terms of how did the donor acquire this West Nile virus infection, the two possibilities are a mosquito bite before the time that the person was injured in the automobile accident, or received a blood product immediately after being injured, ... I think we have to aggressively pursue the possibility that a blood product is responsible for this.

Because the donor of these funds has admitted to activities which are illegal and which we deplore as detrimental to our form of government, the executive director of the Rely On Your Beliefs (committee) will recommend that the board donate these funds to a charity.

I personally went out and talked to people in the community. There were individual donations, and I went to a few banks as well. One private donor gave me $25,000. Many people were very supportive. I got $40,000, but people can still make donations if they want.

The bottom line is that it is very hard to raise the money you need to sustain an organization like this year-round. It is very hard to generate interest in the donor community.

The client had been a well-known charity in the country and really declined in the past 10 years. They have a declining donor file, and there is a decrease in the amount of the average gift.

The donor has a very strong interest and a real commitment to the Multi-cultural Center. He would like to be a member of the team.

The donor simply stated that they wanted to 'create some momentum' in the Mesa Symphony's fund-raising efforts. The anonymous donor's gift is not attached to a particular program, although the donors helping to match the anonymous donor gift with matching funds can be donor specific.

The donor who wants to find a way to spend money will do it.

The guys have been gone for a year, so we lost them for a year. Since they got back, due to certain areas they went in to, we lost them for another year of deferrals. So we lose the Third ID for two years. That's a large donor base that we have.

...if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

It's a loophole that is allowing big donor money into the process.

The odds weren't real likely that he would even receive a donor in time. It was just heartbreaking.

Eight million people carry organ donor cards in Britain and they need to have full confidence that they will be treated with dignity and respect at all times.

It seems to be a phenomenal year. Donor fatigue is something not many charities are seeing.

It's a commitment to Princeton more than to the arts program. The art program is what Princeton wants to do now, and I'm pleased to be a lead donor for that project.

It was a tough decision. But the co-chairman and the single biggest donor decided to come to Great Falls instead.

It's a policy to honor donor intent. It's a double-edged sword and it's one we don't like to have to encounter, but we understand and do our best to let people know we've reached our fund-raising goals in those instances.

They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding.

If I had a donor call tomorrow, it would be a challenge, They'll be welcome to donate as much as they can.

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive