funds n : assets in the form of money [syn: finances, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource]

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Funding is to provide resources, usually in form of money (Financing), or other values such as effort or time (sweat equity), for a project, a person, a business or any other private or public institutions. When a request for funding is made then fundraising is being attempted.

Those funds can be allocated for either short term or long term purposes. The health fund is a new way of funding private healthcare centers.

Among the main sources of funding, there are:

Donations, subsidies and grants are described as soft funding or crowd funding, i.e. funding that has no direct requirement for return of investment.

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