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Harvard finished second to Stanford in fundraising this fiscal year, according to an annual survey published by the Council for Aid to Education (CAE), raising $614 million dollars. Cardinal out-raised Crimson by over $200 million dollars...
...part of the capital campaign, which was launched in Oct. 2006, Stanford hopes to raise $4.3 billion, and the effects of the campaign contributed heavily to Stanford’s fundraising numbers, the authors of the survey said...
Although universities raised more this year than last year, the participation of alumni nationwide dipped slightly from 11.9 percent in 2006 to 11.7 percent this year. The survey authors attributed this to an increase in the sizes of recent alumni classes and the lack of a comparable increase in the number of donors for recent classes...
...recent NMDP survey showed that 95% of new mothers say had they known about public cord-blood donation, they would have donated. Says Kristi Kirkpatrick, a manager from Pittsburgh who is expecting her second child in March. "To be able to save a life with something that'd normally go in the trash?" she says. "That's not a difficult decision for anyone to make...
Lugo would not speculate on whether such a buyer's market might cause some groups to dilute their particular beliefs in order to compete. There are signs of that in such surveys as one done by the Willow Creek megachurch outside Chicago, which has been extremely successful in attracting tens of thousands of religious "seekers." An internal survey recently indicated much of its membership was "stalled" in their spiritual growth, Lugo allowed that "it does raise the question of, once you attract these folks, how do you root them within your own particular tradition when people are changing so quickly...