And the new code makes no provision at all for a donor to set up an asset protection trust for himself--a controversial technique now allowed by six states.

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Other public charities, like hospitals and universities, set up donor-advised funds within their organizations to advance their own charitable missions.

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But because they lie outside of the nucleus, transferring cells from a patient with mitochondrial diseases into a donor egg that has a healthy set of mitochondrial DNA would generate populations of cells that are free of disease.

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In late July the Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program sent warning letters to 32 folks who set up tax-deductible donor-advised funds in 1998 but haven't yet directed a penny from those funds to an operating charity.

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In a chutzpah trust, a donor puts highly appreciated stock in a CRUT set up to pay out 25% to 50% of the trust's balance for two to four years.

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But their contributions of a few tens of thousands of dollars per year are dwarfed by a single source who is so important as to acquire his own set of capitals - the Anonymous Donor.

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They were immediately drawn to the cheaper price tag and swifter timeline (the agency they worked with in Mumbai set them up with both an egg donor and a surrogate in just six weeks).

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The parade of parvenus is the strange but direct result of federal campaign-finance laws that set limits on the amount of money most candidates can raise from any single donor.

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In Spain, for example, donor rates did not begin to rise significantly until an effective national transplant infrastructure had been set up, backed by publicity to educate the public and explode myths.

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