Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gift co-chair Jonathan C. Locker '99 said the matching system made the creation of a Class of 1999 scholarship more feasible...
...Senior Gift fund--whose total value pales in comparison to many gifts the University receives, but serves to cultivate the habit of alumni giving--has come under fire from angry seniors in the past...
...seniors Megan L. Peimer '97 and Ezra W. Reese '97 established an "alternative" senior gift fund to protest the lack of tenured women on the faculty. Peimer and Reese asked seniors to withhold their donations from the University and to store them in a private escrow account instead until Harvard hired more women to tenured spots. The fund raised several thousand dollars overall...
While senior gift fund literature emphasized the importance of any level of participation and had a minimum contribution level of just $10, it also recruited larger donors through a leadership gift committee. The committee solicited "leadership gifts" from wealthier students and offered perks, such as a New York City cocktail party, to those willing to give $250 or more...
...similar picnic is held inside at MIT in June or July. Both events provide seniors with a picnic lunch and a gift, such as the tote bag distributed at Tuesday's event...