Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's $200 million science initiatives lack the appeal of other campaign projects and have proved difficult to get on track, largely because "people tend to give to people," as William H. Boardman Jr., associate vice president for development, puts...
...campaign total has nonetheless topped the University's target due to unanticipated success in other areas of the campaign that made up the difference--and unsolicited gifts that were not part of the original wish list...
Seventy-five percent of the campaign total has come from gifts of over $1million. The largest gift received--$72 million from John F. Loeb--was one of 40 eight-figure gifts raked in by the University, two more than it expected to raise. More strikingly, Harvard came up with more than 100 extra contributions of between $1 and $5 million, yielding almost all of the surplus fundraising...
Those large gifts, however, came from fewer than 500 donors. The campaign as a whole managed to collect money from 172,000 individuals, most of whom came from Harvard's worldwide alumni pool...
...gone way up," said Campaign Chair Rita E. Hauser, who has contributed about $30 million. "Before this, if someone gave a million, it was considered a huge gift...