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...also flows essentially from taxpayers; this makes Harvard theoretically more responsible to the public than if its funding were completely private. Harvard does not even exert control over the majority of its endowment: 85 percent of these funds are restricted, meaning that they are subject to legal and donor-imposed stipulations that prevent their unconditional use. Since every donation is inherently tied to the wishes of its donor, Harvard, as an academic institution, holds explicit sway over only a marginal percentage of its own wealth...
...transitioning to being able to serve a wider cut of the schools and serving the University more broadly,” Rogers said in an interview last week. Rogers also said that the new team will work to expand the University’s capacity to work with donors interested in giving gifts across school boundaries. After an employee in the development office who oversaw these gifts retired, he was never replaced, and Rogers, who took office last fall, decided to expand that role by creating an entire team. Roger P. Cheever ‘67, Charles Collier, Joseph...
...Scherrer said the “best project to date” was providing sewing machines for the Iraqi Women’s League in Al Qaim, which lies on the Iraq-Syria border. A donor group, identified on Beyond Orders as The Hugs Group, sent approximately 20 sewing machines to Marine Lt. Colin Ricks through the Web site in the summer...
...Together, these policies represented “the kind of wish-list that foreign investors and donor agencies dream of for developing markets,” The Economist wrote...
...will be to provide scholarships to faculty members from Indian business schools participating in the HBS program, Chu added. While HBS has previously worked in China and Latin America, Goldman’s funding will help the program to expand into India, according to Kerry L. Cietanno, director of donor relations at HBS, “The goal of this program is to strengthen the capacity of business teaching and practice globally,” she said. According to Cietanno, about five participants from each business school, including administrators and faculty members, will come to HBS to participate...