How to Use fundraise in a Sentence

fundraise

verb
Definition of fundraisenext
  • Texas Tech set the goal of fundraising for the project at $100 million.
    — Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The proceeds from the walk will help fundraise for the chamber, Mathews said.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Now her son is fundraising to protect her Phoenix home.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The Cobbs Creek Foundation needs to fundraise about $70 million more to bankroll the entire project.
    — Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 12 July 2024
  • His campaign will likely fundraise off of these charges.
    — Averi Harper, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Altman had been traveling to the Middle East to fundraise for the project, which was code-named Tigris, the people said.
    — Byedward Ludlow, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The group set out to fundraise for their own set of then-state-of-the-art trunking radios, forming a 501c3 to help formalize the process.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The light campaign schedule this past week comes on the heels of Trump campaigning and fundraising back to back in the past few weeks.
    — Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 5 July 2024
  • But then they were told not to fundraise, and the donation button was removed from the website.
    — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The group partnered with Richmond-area schools to fundraise for the critical mission at a bazaar-style sale last month.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The chapel had started fundraising after its closure, but the amount raised remain in the tens of thousands.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • DeSantis quickly put prints of the photo up for sale to fundraise for baseball in Bhutan.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
  • And just how crucial is fundraising to these appearances on the campaign trail for Trump at this point?
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Hart is pushing back against claims the party is not fundraising properly as a result of the changes in 2024.
    — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2024
  • To bring his dream to life, Effiong had to find unconventional routes to fundraise.
    — WIRED, 22 Oct. 2023
  • That dearth of cash is partially because Lee hasn’t had to fundraise much to defend her seat, which she was first elected to in 1998.
    — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The move to Abbott Loop would likely be temporary while the school continues to fundraise for its own building in the long term.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2023
  • To Investment All of which leads us to the barriers that women face when fundraising.
    — Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • But since voting to boot McCarthy, Mace has aggressively tried to fundraise off of her vote.
    — Ella Sherman, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The costs have drained the center’s bank account, and Marty has been fundraising constantly.
    — Amy Yurkanin | [email protected], al, 24 June 2023
  • Art lovers are fundraising to help Sudanese artists, uprooted and thrown into crisis by the war.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023
  • Without enough people in seats or going through turnstiles, arts groups turn to — what else? — fundraising.
    — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The former president has long fundraised off of his legal challenges.
    — USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The money for that will come not from the team and its sponsors but from Angel City’s first efforts at fundraising from its fans and the community.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
  • Haley herself weighed in later in the day on Twitter, attacking Lemon for the comments and even using them to fundraise.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Already, politicians on both sides of the aisle were seizing on the report to fundraise and energize their supporters on both sides of the issue.
    — Zeke Miller and Jessica Gresko, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2022
  • Holmes said the board would have needed to fundraise another $1.5 million to stay open another year but was unable to do so.
    — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
  • The school will fundraise for the trip and apply for funding through the nonprofit organization Donors Choose.
    — Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Today, the brand launched a 30% off seconds and overstock sale of existing inventory to fundraise.
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Philip helped introduce his father to community organizing, often using the space to fundraise and cook for community meetings and protests, among other things.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024

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