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Japan, once the world's biggest donor nation, is stepping up efforts to boost its influence in resource-rich developing countries by creating a super agency that will dispense billions of dollars a year in foreign aid, most of it bound for Africa and Asia - regions where China is rapidly increasing its clout as an aid donor and commercial partner...
...Politics is partly to blame. U.S. laws state that the $1.5 billion or so in food donated yearly by the United States - the world's biggest food donor - must be grown by American farmers and shipped on U.S.-flagged vessels, despite costing billions of dollars. "Congress has been very protectionist about its food-aid program," says Gawain Kripke, policy director of Oxfam America, which has pushed hard for changes in the U.S. laws. "The U.S. is a massive contributor of food aid, but a very inefficient...
...Other gifts included $25 million from Brazilian businessman Jorge P. Lemann ’61 to fund Brazilian studies, $15 million from an anonymous donor to fund science programs, $13 million from the estate of television mogul Alan Gleitsman to support social activism at the Harvard Kennedy School, and $10 million each to support the Harvard Divinity School and to fund research on energy and the environment...
...slew of financial aid increases last year from the nation’s wealthiest universities, including a $22-milion expansion at Harvard, as “self-correcting.” Harvard and other schools with billion-dollar endowments have fought efforts to legislate payout rates, saying that donor restrictions and inconsistent returns require more flexibility than a mandate would allow. “We must balance our use of its income to support the current generation against our duty to preserve its purchasing power for future generations,” University President Drew G. Faust said in her Commencement...
...really planning to send each donor a piece of your cap and gown in four years when you graduate from New York University? I have a spreadsheet with the person's name, address, and the amount they donated...