Donation

A donation is a gift for charity, humanitarian aid, or to benefit a cause. A donation may take various forms, including money, alms, services, or goods such as clothing, toys, food, or vehicles. A donation may satisfy medical needs such as blood or organs for transplant.

Political party funding are the methods that a political party uses to raise money for campaign and routine activities. This subject is also called political finance. In the US, campaign finance is the more frequently used term.

Political parties are funded by contributions from party members and individual supporters (via membership fees/ dues/ subscriptions and/ or small donations), organizations, which share their political views (e.g. by trade union affiliation fees) or which can benefit from their activities (e.g. by corporate donations) or taxpayers respectively the general revenue fund (by grants that are called state aid, government or public funding).

Funds for party activity (be it campaigning or routine operations) can be solicited via “grassroots fundraising” as party membership dues or other voluntary contributions from individuals (e.g. direct mail fundraising) or as “plutocratic funding” from wealthy people and/ or the business community as corporate donations.

Since the 1960s an additional source of political revenue, public subsidies, is spreading among the democracies. Despite such multitude of promising options, political fundraising via political corruption (e.g. influence peddling, graft, extortion, kickbacks, embezzlement) is still around.

Beside posting memes on the social media and embellishing your opinions or bias on comments, do you add the inhabitants of your wallet?

Remember throwing cash at your favorite candidate or whoever is available might get you an ambassador nomination to say, Hawaii or the Key West.

If you give enough dough for a bit of prid–pro-quo of you accept my money and you will be persuaded to persuade others to follow my agenda.

Money pays for power. Pay up.