He uses his charity, Friends of FMCS History Foundation, to sponsor research on a book he is writing on the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, where he once worked.

But the charity also sponsors weekend camps for teen-agers from October through May.

Many other public charities sponsor similar funds, he noted, but many require larger initial donations.

His main charity, the Zeist Foundation, sponsors children's medical clinics, hospices, shelters, fathering classes, juvenile justice programs and events at which musicians would perform with inner city kids.

A charity, known as the E.A. Bowles of Myddelton House Society, seeks to maintain interest in both the man and his work and, since the fiftieth anniversary of his death in 2004, has sponsored a biennial studentship in his name in conjunction with the RHS.

Finally they got the news that some charity will sponsor the operation of Suhara's husband.

Numerous charities, including some virtually unheard of a few weeks ago, are sponsoring gambling.

From 2005 to 2007, the charity sponsored $11.5 million in grants for genetic research (compared with $5.9 million by all its partners between 1997 and 2004).

According to a 35-page F.B.I. affidavit, filed when Mr. Arnaout was arrested on April 30, the charity sponsored Mr. Salim's visa, reserved his apartment in Bosnia and identified him as one of its directors.