Almost right away, donations began pouring in to help the zoo replace the animals and the 10-year-old building where they lived.

In the first 24 hours after online donations began to be accepted, over 23,000 online donations of $200 or less were made.

The donations began pouring in on Thursday, many of them delivered electronically and accompanied by politically tinged comments.

This slow pace of fundraising in and of itself detracted donations and trustees began to resign.

Then financial donations began pouring in through a secure, on-line credit card program he had installed on the Web site.

When word got out that the school, which uses no state or Federal funds, needed help, private donations began to pour in.

His newsletter was circulated to dioceses throughout the country and financial donations began to pour into Washington.

The donations began in 2001 and occur in the form of three-year grants.

Instead, donations began plummeting this year, she said.

The first donations from Queensland also began to flow in 1948.