appeal for funds
Example Sentences
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Last month, the executive director of the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home Preservation Foundation sent out an urgent appeal for funds to fix rotting siding, moldy bathrooms, aging roofs and other signs of deferred maintenance.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2016
An appeal for funds has raised only £1 in every £10 needed, a United Nations spokesman said.
From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2016
Last year's U.N. appeal for funds to address Syria was less than 60 percent funded, and aid organization Oxfam said pledges were "often so low as to be little more than token gestures."
From US News • Feb. 4, 2016
"And later that year there was an appeal for funds in the Times which was heavily subscribed, which shows that most people did not share the views of this 'True Britisher'," says Julia Kett.
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2014
Radio announcers broke into their morning programming to appeal for funds.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
