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...Within a Senior Gift Committee of more than 150 people, there are 5 Associates Chairs and 21 Associates Committee members who are charged with the task of asking their peers for relatively large sums of money. The job has two important requirements...
...group, the Associates Committee goes through the class list and identifies people they think might be willing to make Associates-level donations. Everyone interviewed for this article confirmed that neither the Committee nor the Harvard College Fund had information about the financial status of any individual senior...
...We’ve all agreed not to approach this in terms of [asking] who’s got money,” says Celia R. Maccoby ’07, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Programs at the Harvard College Fund, who is in charge of managing the Senior Gift. “We’re really thinking about people we know who had a really positive experience here and would want to give at a higher level...
...donors. Maccoby estimated that of the roughly 1,100 students who donated last year, approximately 60 gave Associates-level gifts. Moreover, while most of the money raised for most alumni classes comes from Associates’ gifts, Associates’ donations constitute a smaller proportion of the total Senior Gift...
...course, there is the more publicized drive for pure participation, which consists of over 125 volunteers organized into teams by House. Since the end of March, they work to convince each senior in their respective Houses to make a $10 donation and sign the 2010 Pledge, a promise to donate annually for the next five years. Thus far, Quincy is in the lead, with a participation rate of 35.5 percent...