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Donor

One who gives property or assets to someone else through the vehicle of a trust.

Donor

A person or institution who gives assets to another person or institution, either directly or through a trust. Under most circumstances, donors can deduct the value (or depreciated value) of the assets given from their taxable income. While many donors give out of the goodness of their hearts, many do so in order to avoid taxes, especially when donating through a trust.

donor

One who gives a gift.

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As outlined above, the Model of Personal Donorship (Mount, 1996) helps us to understand the influences on the community partner's decision to participate in service-learning from many perspectives.

Service-learning in nonprofit organizations: motivations, expectations, and outcomes

The resulting document, "Principles and Good Practice of Humanitarian Donorship," does not, however, include provisions for enforcement of these principles or even special incentives for state actors to comply with them.

Upholding humanitarian principles in an effective integrated response

She, and all the competitors, are glowing examples of how much good can come from organ donorship.

Gazette comment The magic of organ donors

back in 1996, Carter, who generally supports and encourages organ donorship, caused a stir when she informed government officials that she and her staff would not comply with a law empowering them to harvest people's corneas and heart valves without family consent.

Blazing a path less traveled

Maybe the biggest beneficiaries are the country's African-American colleges and universities, Spurred by increased Black donorship, these schools are presently enjoying their greatest financial success ever, with a combined total of more than $800 million in endowments.

The new millionaires: emerging generation of supersuccessful African-Americans redefine wealth

Six months earlier she had said she would consider egg donorship only when it was clear that all other options had been foreclosed.

Missing children: one couple's anguished attempt to conceive

nd congratulations to the Mirror on your brilliant campaign on organ donorship.

Twin shows need for organ reform; Madeuthink; WHAT WE'RE ALL SAYING

Description : In line with the Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD) principles, Switzerland recognizes the necessity of predictable and flexible funding to respond to changing needs in humanitarian crises.

Additional Contribution (Cash) of SDC Funding to WFP Operations in Response to the Syria Crisis 2016

There are international agreements--such as the Good Humanitarian Donorship Initiative and the European Union Consensus on Humanitarian Aid--that humanitarian assistance should be left out of these strategies.

Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project: implications for humanitarian action: a view from medecins sans frontieres

RELIGION or atheism doesn't come into the growing demand for compulsory organ donorship.

A gradual change of heart over donorship

This was one of the major goals that we set at that time and at the same time we were trying to use the international community, the European Union, and their donorship to help facilitate and implement the processes in economic, cultural and other relations, which would also help the Georgian and Abkhazian societies get closer and only after that we'd touch upon the status-related issues.