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S: http://www.adf.gov/funding.html (last access: 26 April 2013); http://www.humanitarianinnovation.org/funding (last access: 3 September 2014).

N: 1. Providing financial resources to finance a need, program, or project. In general, this term is used when a firm fills the need for cash from its own internal reserves, and the term ‘financing’ is used when the need is filled from external or borrowed money.
2. Grant of authority to an agency, department, or unit to incur monetary obligations and to pay for them.
3. Transferring ownership of assets to a trust to avoid probate.

S: 1, 2 & 3. http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/funding.html (last access: 20 September 2015).

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