raise money

The occasion for Metallica’s visit to Inglewood’s 6,000-capacity YouTube Theater is the group’s biannual Helping Hands benefit concert, which aims to raise money to fight hunger and to support technical education.

Congestion pricing is designed to raise money for public-transportation improvements and eliminate gridlock, bringing a host of positive externalities such as lower asthma rates, reliable freight delivery, faster emergency response times, and a functional bus network.

Congestion pricing is unpopular, and framing it as a way to raise money—as a tax, rather than as an infrastructure and quality-of-life improvement—is a losing proposition.

A press release, various marketing materials and the prologue of Capt Sir Tom’s memoir, all stated that the books would be used to support or raise money for the foundation.

Federal prosecutors have accused him of orchestrating a $250m bribery scheme and concealing it to raise money in the US.