Word: fund
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There are also traditions of sustained activities involving a significant portion of House residents, like an Evening with Champions, Eliot House's annual figure skating benefit for the Jimmy Fund. If, as many claim, student organizations have replaced Houses as the primary student communities, House-based student organizations might be the best of both worlds...
President Neil L. Rudenstine has traditionally played little role in the life of a Harvard undergraduate. His tenure has emphasized fund-raising as the main role of the President of the University, and although we are now beginning to reap the benefits of the expanded endowment, undergraduates may feel that he is at best a distant benefactor...
With the stock market still booming, University officials are reluctant to slow the pace of their fundraising, fearing an eventual economic downturn that will put a pinch on Harvard's finances and fund drives...
...lagged behind then as it does now, with $48 million left to raise in June of this year. Always sticking points, the libraries, the professorships and the president's special fund were hard sells...
Craig Newmark is making money by accident. While everyone else in the Valley is haunted by the phantom revenues they promised their VCs, Newmark is trying to find charities to fund. A 46-year-old ex-software engineer, he runs the online bulletin board Craigslist.org and if you're anyone in Silicon Valley, you use Craig's List. While headhunters and job fairs throw tons of resumes your way, a $45 posting on Craig's List gets you the real talent. And with 180 new listings each day, the site, which gives its profits to charity...