Contribute

Contribute may refer to:

  • Adobe Contribute Web editing software

Contribution may refer to:

  • Donation
  • Sharing
  • Payment
  • Contribution (law): a payment between defendants with joint and several liability to apportion liability.
  • Publication in a newspaper, magazine, etc.
  • Transport of audio or video content by broadcasters prior to distribution (for example audio or video links between a sports venue or concert hall and the broadcaster's studios).
  • Contribution margin in cost accounting and analysis.

When a request for contributions is directed to more than one party then fundraising is being attempted.

Famous quotes containing the word contribute:

    Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood ... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
    Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)

    Typical of Iowa towns, whether they have 200 or 20,000 inhabitants, is the church supper, often utilized to raise money for paying off church debts. The older and more conservative members argue that the “House of the Lord” should not be made into a restaurant; nevertheless, all members contribute time and effort, and the products of their gardens and larders.
    —For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Institutions—government, churches, industries, and the like—have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
    Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)