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Before shows can even try to answer these greater questions, each group must garner attention, secure creative participation and, of course, raise money. The three shows face two main challenges in finding funding on campus: none is a stand-alone organization, and all find themselves unable to apply for Undergraduate Council grants due to their charitable status. These shows thus find themselves obligated to look beyond the obvious sources for financial support...
...American and Asian enterprise, was sponsored by the Reischauer Institute, which supports research on Japan, and the Korea Institute. Says Harel-Cohen, “there are these very big student organizations associated with minorities. We were linked to different Asian organizations on campus because they can raise the money. It’s much easier to do it from that framework than to just decide to put on a fashion show...
While ties with minority communities can help these shows raise funds, their charitable goals can become ironic obstacles to raising the money that these lavish nights require. The Undergraduate Council (UC) decided recently to make charitable fundraising events ineligible for grants...
...will use the money to study literature in Paris and Cambridge, England this summer, following a tradition of Wendell scholars using the award for summer plans...
Giblin does not know how much money this year’s event has raised because donations are still being accepted, but he said that the importance of the charity event goes beyond its financial impact...