Word: gleitsman
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...Other gifts included $25 million from Brazilian businessman Jorge P. Lemann ’61 to fund Brazilian studies, $15 million from an anonymous donor to fund science programs, $13 million from the estate of television mogul Alan Gleitsman to support social activism at the Harvard Kennedy School, and $10 million each to support the Harvard Divinity School and to fund research on energy and the environment...
...Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government will establish a new program in social justice leadership using a $20 million gift from the estate of television mogul and philanthropist Alan L. Gleitsman, the school plans to announce today. The gift is the largest single gift in the history of the Center and establishes an endowment for the seven-year-old institution. The program, to be named the “Gleitsman Program in Leadership for Social Change,” will finance student fellowships, visiting scholars, and curriculum development in social activism. Gleitsman, who made his fortune...
...Alan L. Gleitsman, who established the foundation, called this year’s honorees—actor and human rights advocate Mike Farrell and self-help residential center founder Mimi Silbert—“citizens extraordinaire...
...introducing Silbert, Gleitsman told the audience that she liked to say that while Harvard took the top one to two percent, Delancey Street picked the bottom one to two percent...
...Gleitsman said that when he commissioned Lin to craft the awards, she was inspired by the idea that “some extraordinary people can see things more clearly than others—as if they were magnified...