appeal for funds
Example Sentences
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With the help of the editor of Wales’s leading newspaper, the Western Mail, he launched an appeal for funds to replace the Alabama church’s stained-glass window.
From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2020
The new installation comes thanks to a successful appeal for funds.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2018
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
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
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
