The film was primarily funded by private, overseas Chinese donors.

Since then, the hospital has built an underground emergency room, partly funded by overseas donors.

Approximately 50 percent of the food distributed by Yad Eliezer is purchased wholesale with donations from overseas donors.

"They are like magicians," said Shirley Young, a General Motors executive who is one of several overseas donors to the museum.

It has a budget of 2 billion USD, which includes funds from overseas donors, notably Japan, the European Union, Australia and the World Bank.

The Democratic National Committee returned millions of dollars in suspect soft money that came from overseas donors or from individuals who may not have contributed their own money.

They are also the cute faces that pull the heartstrings of overseas donors like Schmidt.

More than 1.8 million of Mozambique's nearly 15 million people already depend for their survival on food provided by overseas donors.

So far, the only funds available for reparations are those the commission itself has raised from overseas donors - about $1.1 million.

It was an extraordinarily long and ugly campaign, one that has alienated the overseas donors.