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...will be earning high sums in the future) to write checks to Harvard. While this is important in terms of the College's long-term fundraising strategy, its focus on rewarding donors while claiming to help the College is misleading. True philanthropy, whether toward Harvard or any other non-profit organization, should stem from an honest desire to donate time, resources or money. Luring donors through cocktail parties obscures the philanthropic goals of the Senior Gift, making the act of giving more about prestige and yo-yos than altruism and education...
Ivey said that the NEA should fund popular culture and for-profit arts as well as traditional "high culture...
...Vendors can turn a pretty good profit in a day's work. Shorey estimates that most people make from between 40 to 80 dollars a day. The money is never constant and varies from person to person. "I know some vendors who make a hundred dollars a day and some who have trouble making 20," Shorey says. These days, he makes about ten dollars per hour. For Shorey, like others, Spare Change has allowed him to move off the streets and into housing; he presently lives in Lynn...
...risk of homelessness can work at Spare Change as long as he or she is sober and courteous. Vendors must obtain ID cards and then can purchase the rag for a quarter per issue to resell it at a 400 percent markup at a dollar. The seventy-five cents profit per issue they get to pocket...
...With income being entirely commission based, location and ability as a salesperson can be crucial to profit. "You need to be vocal otherwise people won't listen," Shorey says. Any Harvard student who has walked by Au Bon Pain is familiar with the aggressive sales pitch--"Young lady, young lady, young lady, well hello...