These are the letters that rich people write when they join Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge campaign.
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Colin Kaepernick just wrote his LAST check as part of his "$1 Million Pledge" campaign -- and teamed up with Usher to end it with a bang.
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High-profile donors who have committed to giving away the bulk of their wealth through the Giving Pledge campaign could also inspire other individuals to increase their giving.
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Last May, Barnard College's Athena Center for Leadership Studies launched the Athena Pledge campaign to encourage accelerators and incubators to support at least 33 percent women-led businesses by 2017.
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O'Rourke's proposal "has a lot of Green New Deal elements in it," said RL Miller, cofounder of the Climate Hawks Vote, a group in the no fossil fuel pledge campaign.
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And, Gates and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett, have also convinced hundreds of wealthy people to donate billions of dollars of their wealth to charity as part of their Giving Pledge campaign.
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In addition to their friendship, Gates and Buffett joined forces in 2010 to announce The Giving Pledge campaign, through which the pair have recruited over 200 wealthy people around the world to donate the bulk of their fortunes to philanthropic causes.
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Tolkki, Timo (2012-07-26). "Canceling the pledge campaign". PledgeMusic. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
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" PledgeMusic. Retrieved March 3, 2014. Casualties of Cool was released on May 14, 2014."The Casualties of Cool Pledge campaign has started.
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Ginger Wildheart was awarded the 2012 Classic Rock Awards 'Event Of The Year' award for his PledgeMusic campaign.Award-winning Ginger Wildheart Pledge campaign 'testament to commercial viability of D2F'. Music Week. Retrieved on 2013-09-21.
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Under her leadership as the President of BJYM, her team launched 17 campaigns to attract young first-time voters from across the country. The campaigns ranged from online initiatives like a national Volunteer Network and #PehlaVoteModiKo pledge campaign to offline initiatives like Vijay Sankalp Bike Rally and Campus Ambassador Programme.
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The band announce album number three and coinciding 'Indiegogo' pledge campaign in February 2018. The as yet untitled album was scheduled for release in 2018, the tag #HELLELUJAH has been used several times during the early marketing activities, this is unknown whether the tag represents a possible album or single title.
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The album was funded through an online Pledge campaign, in which her fans demonstrated their faith oversubscribing it in two days. No doubt aided by a post from Sia Furler directing her fans to Noonan's soundcloud page and saying "My friend Katie sure can sing!". Noonan toured the album nationally throughout October and November 2015.
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Devin Townsend's TwitterDevin Townsend's Twitter Townsend also planned to start a crowdfunding campaign to support the release of the album.Devin Townsend's Twitter The campaign started on February 22, 2014, through PledgeMusic, and at the same time the release date was confirmed to May 14, 2014."The Casualties of Cool Pledge campaign has started." Devin Townsend official Facebook page.
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The Burgher's debut recording was on the single "Metalhead", which released in June 2012. However, in 2013 the band was financially exhausted and had to start a pledge campaign to resume work on their 4th album. By then, Dregen was getting a solo-album off the ground and chose Märvel to tour Scandinavia with him in autumn of that year.
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In March 2013 she signed to BMG as a songwriter. In August 2013 Claret wrote the theme song "I'm Serious" for Bravo's Eat, Drink, Love. In January 2015, Claret & her husband released a song "Daisy Bell" under the name of Tour Crush. On September 10, 2014, Claret began a Pledge Campaign for her No Good Way To Die EP which was 100% funded within 24 hours.
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In a letter circulated to all MPs on the day of the vote, the Conservative MP Steve Baker claimed the public appetite for the vote could be seen with the strength of support in each constituency for the People's Pledge campaign and the number of supporters that attended the Congress for an EU Referendum on Saturday 22 October., Steve Baker letter to all MPs, 24 October 2011.
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In 2012, Jeffrey Cohan became executive director, and the organization's first professional staff member. Under Cohan's leadership, the organization has added professional staff, built a Board of Directors, and assembled Rabbinic and Advisory councils. In 2015, Jewish Veg created a Veg Pledge campaign to help people adopt plant-based diets. Pledge-takers have the option to be connected with a vegan mentor if they so choose.
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They instead support the expansion and improvement of public transport to improve service to Melbourne's outer suburbs and to reduce congestion. In early 2013 the Socialist Party initiated a pledge campaign"The Tunnel Picket: How we brought down the Victorian government", The Socialist, December 2014 to canvass support for community action against the construction of the tunnel, and a series of pickets were initiated in the Yarra area and Melbourne's CBD.
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The pledge campaign began in November 2016 and was completely funded in less than 3 days. The band used high-profile producer Aaron Sprinkle and mixers Tom Lord Alge & J Hall to complete their fifth studio album. They confirmed via the pledge site that the new album will be titled Wolves, which was released on PledgeMusic on December 1, 2017. The album's wide release was on December 8, 2017.
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As a way of seeing their goals achieved, SANE began working through its political lobbying programs. The organization began by pushing for the election of congressional candidates whose positions reflected those of the organization. In 1966, SANE formed the "Voter's Peace Pledge Campaign" to urge Congressional candidates to work for peace in Vietnam. They became one of the first national organizations to advocate removal of President Lyndon B. Johnson from office.
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At another undetermined date in 2019, Anavae signed with A Wolf At Your Door to produce a full-length album. In early September 2019, Anavae announced their new album "45". The album would feature both new songs and previous ones that were made while the Pledge campaign, achieving a total of 12 songs. The album released on 11 November 2019 on all music streaming platforms as well as a physical record on CD or vinyl.
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The album was released to the public on 21 February 2013. For the fourth album Brain Waves they returned to PledgeMusic with a more ambitious target in November 2014 to make a new album and a DVDLouder Than War review and raised 100% of their funding within 80 minutes of going live.Pure Rawk news article By the end of the pledge campaign the total was 390%. The first incentive fans received was an EP of cover versions called Remain in Eighties.
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Rather than pursue investor funding, Planetary Annihilations developer Uber Entertainment chose to use the crowdfunding site Kickstarter for their financial backing. They revealed the game to the public on August 15, 2012, with their Kickstarter funding goal set at $900,000. The concept video used for the pledge campaign took approximately three months to go from initial pencil-and- paper designs to final animation. As the campaign began, pledges came in quickly, reaching $450,000 by the fifth day of the campaign.
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Crane and Palmer left to form Atomic Rooster, Greenwood, known as Sean Nicholas during his time in the band, went on to Khan where he performed under the name Nick Greenwood. Theaker went to join Love and then Rustic Hinge, and Arthur Brown eventually joined Kingdom Come. The band re-formed in 2000 and released Tantric Lover. In 2013, as the result of a successful pledge campaign on PledgeMusic, the band released the album Zim Zam Zim, recorded in Brown's yurt in Lewes.
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Maha Bua had been a key supporter of the People's Alliance for Democracy.The Nation, Community radio stations shut down , 22 September 2006 In response to the community radio ban, some station operators vowed to air only non political programmes. They promised self-censorship to ensure their programmes would not infringe against CDR rules. Others in the north initiated a signed pledge campaign that they would not become involved in politics and that their programming would be completely free of politics.
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Ince was selected as a featured hero by The Emily Fund's Do One Thing program, primarily for his role as the creator of the Earth Pledge Campaign. In that capacity, he wrote "The Earth Pledge", a short statement of personal commitment that was made by millions of Americans on the 25 anniversary of Earth Day in 1995. Today, school children in schools around the country recite the Earth Pledge as a complement to the Pledge of Allegiance. Ince spent is the founder of One World Inc.
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He also narrates Come Dine With Me and Come Dine With Me South Africa and provides the voice-over on the CBeebies animated shows Big Barn Farm and Waybuloo. He narrated a special section of Blue Peter on 25 October 2011. The section was a spoof of Come Dine With Me at a zoo where the guests were animals. In May 2012, he did a voice over for UK band Jackdaw4 on their PledgeMusic page, to promote their pledge campaign to record their fourth album.
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In 2012, Brown and Rick Patten released The Magic Hat alongside a comic of the same title by Matt Howarth. In 2013, as the result of a successful pledge campaign on PledgeMusic, Brown released the album Zim Zam Zim, recorded in his yurt in Lewes. In 2018, Brown was a guest vocalist on the first five dates of Hawkwind's UK tour. In April 2019, it was announced that Brown would join Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy as guest vocalist on "The Royal Affair Tour", starting in June 2019.
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Since 2008, Sparks and the campaign travels to the Super Bowls designated city to host a week of charitable events, to raise money for several charities. In June 2010, the "Thumbs Up to X the TXT" pledge campaign, established by Allstate, made its way to Sparks's Battlefield Tour, presented by Mike & Ike to encourage teens and their families not to text while driving. Fans at Sparks's concerts made a pledge not to text and drive by adding their thumbprint to a traveling banner at each of her shows.
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The newspapers reported that the change of date was "designed to undermine a mass lobby organised by the People's Pledge campaign for an EU referendum. The organisation was hoping thousands of supporters would be at Westminster next Thursday". In light of the change of date the Conservative MP David Nuttall asked whether the "Government will recompense anyone who planned to attend a lobby of Parliament next Thursday, organised by the People's Pledge, but have now had to reorganise their travel plans as a result of the rescheduling of Government business?"David Cameron Faces Cabinet Rebellion Over Vote, The Daily Express, 21 October 2011.
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Successive U.K. Subs album titles start with consecutive letters of the alphabet, and the band announced on 24 October 2015 via their Facebook page, that the 26th album starting with the letter "Z" would be their last long playing record, although they would continue to release EPs. The band intend to fund the final album through Crowdfunding site Pledge Music, the official start date for their pledge campaign is 1 November 2015. The U.K. Subs song "Down on the Farm" was covered by Guns N' Roses on their 1993 covers album "The Spaghetti Incident?". The U.K. Subs joined the bill for the 2006 Fiend Fest.
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The band recorded a double album after a successful pledge campaign with producer Jacob Hansen in Denmark. The new double album was picked up by Napalm Records with Managing Director Thomas Caser stating that Kobra and the Lotus was "one of the most exciting new bands in this (hard rock) genre". Prevail I and Prevail II will be released separately, Part I released in 2017. The first single from Prevail I 'TriggerPulse' was released early to coincide with a fall European tour with Delain and Evergrey and became the first song by Kobra and the Lotus to gain over 2 million plays on Spotify.
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He also devised the "fur pledge" campaign targeting Manchester-based furrier, Edelson Furs, which had a number of franchises in large department stores; the pledge involved members of the public vowing to boycott entire stores while they had fur departments. He initiated public showings of videos such as Victor Schonfeld's The Animals Film, and opened and ran the first "Animal Rights Shop" in Liverpool City centre, selling merchandise from a range of national animal protection organisations. Throughout this period, Merseyside activists were active members of the Northern Animal Liberation League (NALL), culminating in a daylight raid on ICI in Alderley Park, Cheshire, involving 300 activists.Mann 2007, pp. 81–83.
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Other Justice Democrats congressional members like Ro Khanna and Rashida Tlaib have appeared on TYT discussing progressive policies and issues. In June 2019, during a high-profile Democratic presidential candidate campaign weekend in Iowa, TYT and a group of supporters launched the Progressive Economic Pledge campaign, challenging presidential candidates to sign. The pledge is to support higher wages, Medicare for All, Green New Deal, college for all and the end of private campaign financing. In mid-November 2019, Uygur filed to run for Congress in California's 25th district, a seat recently vacated by the resignation of Katie Hill, an office also being pursued by former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos.
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In contrast to any other Sirenia album, all members contributed in the recording studio. Specifically, live guitarists Jan Erik Soltvedt and Nils Courbaron both played guitar solos on several tracks. Additionally, Emmanuelle Zoldan demonstrated her operatic vocal skills much more and wrote the French lyrics in two songs. About it and their intense promotion campaign, Veland said: > This album is something unique to us as it is the first one we have made > together with our fans; everyone who have supported our pledge campaign has > directly contributed to the funding of the album and to make it what it has > turned out to be.
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Reddick also announced in a video posted online that the band was scheduled to record a new cover album, as well as a greatest hits album after the 2013 Farewell UK Tour and preceding the band's 20th anniversary in June 2014. On June 11, 2013, Reddick announced via the band's PledgeMusic Project page it was up to the pledgers to vote on what the newest album should be named. On June 20, 2013, it was announced the title with the most votes was Lunch. Drunk. Love. The album was released to the pledgers on September 6, 2013 in both clean and explicit formats and the pledge campaign was temporarily extended, allowing effective purchase of the album for $10.
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In February 2010, the Damnwells began a pledge drive to cover the production costs of a new studio record through a direct-to-fan/fan-funded music platform, Pledgemusic. As of October 9, 2010, the band had raised over $34,547, 173% of their initial goal of $20,000, and released two songs to pledgers, "She Goes Around" and "Feast of Hearts", from the new Pledgemusic-funded record. $2,909.40 has been donated to United Against Malaria as part of the pledge campaign charity drive. In December 2013, The Damnwells began a new pledge drive in anticipation of their fifth studio album, which features original members Steven Terry, David Chernis, Ted Hudson, and Alex Dezen.
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In June 2010, the Giving Pledge campaign was formally announced and Bill Gates and Warren Buffett began recruiting members. As of August 2010, the aggregate wealth of the first 40 pledgers was $125 billion. As of April 2011, 69 billionaires had joined the campaign and given a pledge,10 More U.S. Families Commit to the Giving Pledge , retrieved 25 October 2011 and by the following year, The Huffington Post reported that a total of 81 billionaires had pledged."Warren Buffett, Bill Gates Giving Pledge Gets 12 More Billionaires To Commit Over Half Of Their Fortunes", Huffington Post, April 20 2012 By May 2017, 158 individuals and/or couples were listed as pledgers.
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Following the culmination of the tour, Swansea musician, Adam O'Sullivan, was drafted in as a session guitarist for the recording of the band's fourth album, entitled "Incarnate", and the subsequent tour. In 2015, Steve Rothery Band and Mr So&So; guitarist, Dave Foster, appeared onstage with Panic Room as a session player on their Wildfire Tour and also played on their Kickstarter funded acoustic album Essence, before subsequently joining the band as a full member. 'Essence' was released as a single CD album and also as a special edition with a DVD containing 'The Making Of Essence': a documentary film of the production of the album. Following a successful Pledge Campaign the band filmed a special concert on 16 October 2016 at Islington Assembly Hall for a live DVD release.
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A leaflet entitled Break Free from the outdated EU was distributed, setting out what the DM called a "better way" of trade and co- operation between European countries being perfectly possible without having to pass ever more decisions to remote EU institutions. The Democracy Movement won the referendum, with 63 per cent of respondents voting against the Lisbon Treaty and 27 per cent for it, while 54 per cent voted against EU membership and 35 per cent in favour. In 2011 the Democracy Movement continued its drive for an EU referendum as a founding supporter of the cross-party People's Pledge campaign for an in-out referendum on Britain's membership of the EU. A referendum took place on 23 June 2016, with almost 52% of the voters voting to leave the EU.
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Following his release from Lava/Universal Republic, Brooks focused on being an independent artist again and immediately began work on a new EP. Using the site Pledgemusic, Brooks started a pledge campaign and succeeded in funding his next album through fan donations. The funds were used to record his EP A Reason To Swim, that was released on 6 September 2011 in the US. A music video for the song "Holes Inside" was also produced and released a day after the album. Brooks attracted enough international fans from Asia and was able to sign with Sony in Korea and Malaysia who licensed his A Reason to Swim for release there. To coincide with a media tour of Asia, Brooks ran a charity marathon to raise funds for a mission trip to China.
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Herrell also took part in the "Make a Pledge" campaign and encouraged everyone to "Think Twice" about the potential impact of our every day lifestyle choices on the sustainability of the planet Earth. Herrell, together with Miss Earth Foundation executives Catherine Untalan and AJ Mira, did a courtesy visit and environmental presentation at Malacañang Palace in May 2015. Herrell screened the aspired candidates for Miss Philippines Earth 2015 and participated in all the environmental activities of the pageant. And on May 31, 2015, Jamie passed the crowned to the new winner, Angelia Ong of the City of Manila. Herrell's international trip started officially when she traveled to Sri Lanka after her Miss Philippines Earth 2015 duties and had interviews and pictorials for Derana TV and for various magazines and newspapers including Hi Magazine, Sunday Lankadeepa and Sunday Times.
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According to the Labour Party MP Kelvin Hopkins: "While those who initiated the People's Pledge campaign are primarily Eurosceptic, it has support from those who take a different, pro-EU view, but who wish to see the issue properly resolved by a vote of the British people." Directed at its launch by Mark Seddon, with cross-party support from MPs including the Labour party's head of policy Jon Cruddas MP and other politicians including then Mayor of London Boris Johnson,Boris Johnson signs the People's Pledge City AM 26 March 2012 it aimed in particular to focus pressure on MPs in marginal seats using the tactic of holding independently scrutinised constituency referendums. By early 2012, more than 128,000 voters and 87 MPs had signed up to the campaign. In September 2012, the People's Pledge was appointed as the secretariat to a new APPG for an EU referendum, with Conservative MP John Baron acting as the group's chair and Labour MP and former government minister Keith Vaz as vice chair.
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The final football game was played on October 27, 1948. On July 12, 2006, a group of 15 UNC Charlotte students and alumni held the inaugural Charlotte 49er Football Initiative (CFI) meeting. The mission of this group was to "promote the creation of a Division 1 college football program at Charlotte," eventually employing methods such as a promotional website, merchandise sales and a pledge campaign. A student organization, Charlotte Football Advocates (later CFI Students), became a part of the larger CFI group during the fall of 2006. In February 2007, UNC Charlotte students voted overwhelmingly in favor of football in an official campus-wide vote and the UNC Charlotte Board of Trustees voted to authorize $150,000 to study adding 49ers Football, and establishing a Football Feasibility Committee to be headed by outgoing board president and prominent Charlotte businessman Mac Everett. The committee held several meetings throughout the summer of 2007, plus three public forums in the fall of 2007. In December 2007, the Football Feasibility Committee voted unanimously to recommend the addition of 49ers football. In September 2008, a major student- led March to the Endzone rally was held on campus.
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The People's Pledge campaign was launched in Westminster on 15 March 2011. The campaign website had been launched two days earlier. The campaign described its views citing five key reasons why a referendum was needed: that nobody under the age of 54 had ever been given the chance to vote on the issue (i.e., those aged 18 or over in 1975), that the EU now made the majority of laws of the United Kingdom, that the ministers and parliamentarians making those laws were not accountable to British voters, that the cost of the EU to the British taxpayer was rising, and that the European Commission was aiming for further powers of economic governance. The campaign claimed that over 6,000 people had already signed the pledge before the official launch, and 30,000 people had signed by 17 March. Dan Hannan in The Daily Telegraph claimed: "in the first 5 days more than 42,000 people had signed up via the campaign's website and 3,000 more volunteered to help leaflet".Join the campaign for an In/Out referendum, The Telegraph, 21 March 2011. The People's Pledge were at launch the only campaign listed in the BBC's "Timeline: Campaigns for a European Union referendum".Timeline: Campaigns for a European Union referendum, The BBC, 25 October 2011.
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