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GAIN SHARING [4 records]

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Record 1 2025-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
  • Government Contracts
CONT

Financial disincentives make use of a monetary adjustment to reprimand the contractor for non-compliance. [There are] four types of financial disincentives : at-risk amounts, gain/pain sharing incentives, holdbacks, and liquidated damages.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
  • Marchés publics

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-12-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
  • Organizations and Associations (Admin.)
  • Social Services and Social Work
DEF

A coordinated series of events or actions aimed at raising funds over an extended period of time.

CONT

Unlike a single fundraising event, a fundraising campaign must build and sustain momentum over several weeks, months or even years with close attention paid to continuity and sharing information and results with both the public and your supporters. You can have a narrow goal, like raising money towards a specific goal, but most fundraising campaigns are multi-purpose. Aside from raising money, fundraising campaigns can be helpful in educating the public, raising awareness to gain support for a cause, or boosting community spirit.

OBS

In English, the designations "fundraising campaign" and "fundraising drive" refer to a fundraising campaign for any type of organization, whereas in French, the designation "campagne de souscription" is only used when referring to a fundraising campaign for a charitable organization.

Key term(s)
  • fund-raising campaign
  • fund raising campaign
  • fund-raising drive
  • fund raising drive

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
  • Organismes et associations (Admin.)
  • Services sociaux et travail social
DEF

Collecte de fonds pour une œuvre de bienfaisance.

OBS

En français, la désignation «campagne de souscription» désigne une collecte de fonds spécifique à une œuvre de bienfaisance tandis qu'en anglais, les équivalents «fundraising campaign» et «fundraising drive» désignent une campagne de financement pour n'importe type d'organisme.

OBS

souscription : Action de souscrire, de s'engager à payer [quelque chose].

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Finanzas
  • Organismos y asociaciones (Admón.)
  • Servicios sociales y trabajo social
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Record 3 2024-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
  • Organizations and Associations (Admin.)
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
DEF

A coordinated series of events or actions aimed at raising funds over an extended period of time.

CONT

Unlike a single fundraising event, a fundraising campaign must build and sustain momentum over several weeks, months or even years with close attention paid to continuity and sharing information and results with both the public and your supporters. You can have a narrow goal, like raising money towards a specific goal, but most fundraising campaigns are multi-purpose. Aside from raising money, fundraising campaigns can be helpful in educating the public, raising awareness to gain support for a cause, or boosting community spirit.

PHR

three-year fundraising drive

Key term(s)
  • fund-raising campaign
  • fund raising campaign
  • fund-raising drive
  • fund raising drive

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
  • Organismes et associations (Admin.)
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
DEF

[...] ensemble des activités ayant pour but, au cours d'une période déterminée, d'amasser des sommes d'argent [...]

CONT

Cette activité de financement aura permis à plus de 128 joueurs de se rencontrer et de profiter d'un terrain avec des conditions à son meilleur. Rappelons qu'une campagne de financement avait débuté en avril dernier afin d'aider le Club à moderniser certains équipements en plus d'assurer la pérennité de ce joyau de la Côte-du-Sud.

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
CONT

The only form of gain sharing that has been encouraged in the past by government is profit sharing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Finanzas
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