Word: gifting
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...Greenhouse Cafe. Over chocolate chip pancakes, crispy hash browns and an omelet, lie. Mention offhand that the dining hall is rumored to have come under suspicion from the Massachusetts Health Inspection Board. *Ching: $25 in Greenhouse gift certificates, good for that late-night carrot cake hankering...
...Greenhouse Cafe. Over chocolate chip pancakes, crispy hash browns and an omelet, lie. Mention offhand that the dining hall is rumored to have come under suspicion from the Massachusetts Health Inspection Board. *Ching: $25 in Greenhouse gift certificates, good for that late-night carrot cake hankering...
...Antoinette was raised a Baptist and at home, the family attends church together. Her mother considers faith to be the most important gift she has given her daughter. Although Antoinette has not yet settled on a local church to attend, she still considers her religion important to her lifestyle. Community service has also been a part of her religious upbringing--she was a community service worker through her Los Angeles church and now co-directs a Phillips Brooks House Association program...
Some seniors, lamenting the fact that none of us organized an Alternative Senior Gift Fund this year, will either not give at all or will cave and write their $10 checks to Harvard. But there is an alternative senior gift fund--several thousand of them. They are the charities in Cambridge, Boston and farther afield that can really use your $10 or more--that really do have needs. Ironically, Massachusetts--home to the University with the largest endowment in the world and the seventh richest non-profit in the U.S. as of 1996--ranked last among the 50 states last...
Call (800) 298-7141 to get a copy of the Catalogue for Philanthropy, which lists 100 of the best smaller charities in Massachusetts, or visit their Web site at www.catphilanthropy.org--and consider giving. You shouldn't have to put your checkbook away just because you find the Senior Gift objectionable. Geoffrey C. Upton '99 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...