1.   An estate lawyer can show you ways to combine charitable gifts and insurance, for example, to pass on more to heirs.

2.   At the time, Gates was criticized for publicizing a charitable gift when his company was fighting government antitrust charges in U.S. District Court in Washington.

3.   Because of the IRS decision, Ms. McPherson could deduct her payments as charitable gifts.

4.   A judge had dismissed the suit, ruling that only the New York attorney general could sue for breach of charitable gift conditions.

5.   After a review, Sethna said officials found that many donors has earmarked their charitable gifts to cover overhead and administration costs.

6.   But by the time they reach the Gikomba stalls, they are anything but charitable gifts.

7.   Charitable gifts have skyrocketed, as have sales of flags and stocks of donated blood.

8.   Charitable gifts should remain deductible at a time when government is scaling back its services, they said.

9.   Corporate and foundation philanthropy attracts a lot of publicity, but the bulk of charitable gifts are made by individual donors.

10.   Even the good charity bureaus are so small, he added, that they are limited in how much they can do to police charitable gifts.