In exchange for these contributions, project sponsors utilizing Kickstarter offer incentives to contributors for various levels of giving.

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Project sponsors include Georgia Power Company (GPC), Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC), the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG) and the City of Dalton, Georgia (Dalton).

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Nonetheless it is a much needed safety net and one that should instil confidence in project sponsors to push on with projects in the knowledge that no well structured project will fail for lack of access to private finance.

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Employment group Manpower - which has been vocal in its criticism of the project and sponsors one of the Dome's 14 zones - demanded changes to the management team.

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To compensate for lost rainforest, Cameroon has created two new national parks, paid for by the project's sponsors.

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The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, within the framework of the UNESCO Intersectoral Platform "Contributing to the Dialogue among Civilizations and Cultures and a Culture of Peace", sponsors a project centred on museological approaches of communicating historical intercultural exchange, with the financial contribution of USD 199, 445.

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The proof of concept design was initially created some time ago, and sponsors of the project have helped build the hardware according to the students' original designs.

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Defensiveness: Once decisions have been made, plan sponsors conclude they know all they need to know and that is the attitude they project to the outside world.

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