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...commend A. Jabbar Abdi '94, Samantha A. Ettus '94 and the other members of the Senior Gift committee for their hard work. I'm sure generations of Harvard students will someday do the same...
Gift Co-chair A. Jabbar Abdi 94 comments that the point of the Gift is not so much to raise a lot of money as to get people in the habit of giving to the College funded on donations, whether is was John Harvard or Anne Radcliffe," Abdi says. give, we're saying this is why they should give...
...fact, the committee spends a great deal of effort trying to get everyone to donate. Abdi himself say that the goal of this year's campaign is 80 percent participation (based on an all-time high of 79 percent set by the Class...
...point is not just to habituate participation, it's to habituate a certain level of participation. Abdi notes that the average gift is $35. But he concedes that the Gift Committee also includes a Special Committee to target graduates from wealthy families and get them to give more. "The who point is proportional five create an elitist atmosphere...
...this really troubled me. If the goal of the exercise is to encourage the habit of giving, why ask different people to give different amounts? To encourage giving proportional to one's income, was the answer co-chair A. Jabbar Abdi '94 gave The Crimson in a recent interview...