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...student group IMPACT ran the pageant as a fund raiser supporting grassroots charities in Nepal, Kenya, Gambia and China, and according to IMPACT President Oliver Soong ’04, the event brought in just over...
What a difference a few years make. The former antinetworker now has more contacts than a political fund raiser. She could hardly have imagined regularly flying off for networking events--and loving it. And her circle is about to expand again as she prepares to launch an Internet radio program offering advice for juggling work and home duties. She's the queen of WorldWIT, a global e-mail networking group with outposts all over the planet...
...Kuumba Singers of Harvard College started the festival in 1998 as a fund-raiser, according to the BAF website, but it has grown significantly since then, attracting guests such as the hip-hop group The Roots and spoken word performer Sonia Sanchez...
...Sweat the Small Stuff There's no room for rookie mistakes, even when no one's watching. An appearance on Meet the Press can give weeks of good buzz, as it did for Dean last summer, or have the opposite effect, as it did for Edwards last May. Fund raisers grumble that Edwards is slow with his thank-you notes, but the North Carolina Senator's Jan. 2 announcement that he was running was masterly: a tightly organized media blitz of 40 interviews, plus a news conference at the end of his driveway. The more seasoned Gephardt botched his entry...
...situation ripe for manipulation. In the last two years of the Clinton Administration, despite a recommendation by BAR staff to deny recognition to six tribal groups, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Kevin Gover, a former Clinton fund raiser appointed to the post by the President, recognized four of the tribes before he left office on Jan. 3, 2001. His successor, Michael Anderson, another Clinton appointee, then pressured the BAR staff to change its recommendation on the two other tribes. In an atmosphere so tense that a staff member later described it to the Interior Department's Inspector General as "pure...