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Lois Pope—philanthropist and founder of the Lois Pope LIFE Foundation??said her foundation tries to give $100,000 every year “to a person who has made a tremendous difference in everyone’s life...
...overwhelming majority of whom will Black and poor. It is crucial that Harvard’s Black intelligentsia no longer permit the usual suspects of the criminal justice industry to control the policy discourse on questions of public safety that so disproportionately affect poor Black people. The Boston Foundation??s current twenty-six million dollar Street Safe initiative, led by Robert Lewis Jr., presents an excellent opportunity for Harvard undergraduates to volunteer in local community-based organizations in the effort to stem violence in the Black community...
...with great sadness that I write to inform you that the Picower Foundation has ceased all grant-making, effective immediately, and will close its doors in the coming months,” Picower wrote. “The foundation??s endowment was managed by Bernard L. Madoff, who, as you well know, was arrested on Dec. 11 for securities fraud...
...though the impact of the alleged Madoff scheme has touched other Boston-area universities—Tufts reported $20 million in investment losses on Friday—some Harvard affiliates affected by Madoff have been more fortunate. Carl and Ruth Shapiro, the Boston couple who lost nearly half their foundation??s assets through Madoff’s fund, pledged in a statement last week to honor “all existing commitments.” Their couple’s foundation has supported many initiatives at Harvard-affiliates including the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women?...
...attempt to seize control of the funds, the plaintiffs sued Princeton for misusing the money in ways that they said did not align with the foundation??s mission...