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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
provides capital from a pool of donations to a portfolio of curated organizations whose ethos align with four pillars of purpose: justice system reform, education parity, health and wellness access, and community outreach and social... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
COVID-related trials needing over 858,000 volunteers. “Every week, every day, every hour we can decrease the time for developing COVID-19 solutions will make a tremendous impact,” says Kapoor, who notes that the platform will soon begin to match COVID positive... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
off-the-grid locations are difficult,” notes Risher. “For schools in these areas, e-readers, which are rapidly coming down in cost, are ideal.” With a one-time donation of 30 Kindles from Amazon, Risher launched Worldreader last winter in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
Greenland, thereby earning the right to name it. He chose "Minarjnik," a contraction of the names of his wife, Mrinalini Mani, and two sons, Nikhil and Arjun. A memorial service was held in February at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
annual budget and then finding the means to support it. Fundraising, he says, has always intrigued him. He acknowledges that people don't usually like to ask for donations and that "it can be downright embarrassing," but he sees it as the... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
academe: a tree planted near Burden by the PMD 70 class at their graduation. The class may have been inspired by the Partners Association, which had planted a tree in front of Soldiers Field Park apartments. PMD 70 donated the money for... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
certification. Chapman plans to add nursing and entrepreneurship options next. Hudson is also exploring innovations on the fundraising side, such as allowing donors to donate stock or cryptocurrency. “The more we can diversify our options... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
men resolved to set up a program in their rural county that would bring in students from each district high school for a daily class in entrepreneurship. Dubbed CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities) by its first group of students, the program is totally paid for... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
included a commitment to put 90 percent of donations toward research that will accelerate discoveries. “We built an organization we would want to invest in ourselves. We cover overhead so donors aren’t giving money to the nonprofit; they... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
Heifer International, the anti-poverty organization perhaps best known for its livestock donation program. “We can do this by building businesses. We are putting families in commerce. They are not just growing vegetables in a garden. They... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
state funding.” Dias Griffin and her husband, Ken Griffin, have made education a cornerstone of their philanthropy for years. Through their eponymous family foundation, they have donated more than $13 million to CHECC. “I benefited from a... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
water bottle that marries fashion and function.” The company donates 10% of sales to WaterAid, a 501(c)(3) organization that improves access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest communities in Africa and Asia. Find... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
(MBA 2019) Kenneth Chenault (MBA 2019) Kevin Chenault (MBA 2021) Kevin Chenault (MBA 2021) To answer their question, the group inaugurated the ARF as a GoFundMe project that raised $40,000 within 12 hours. The fund has since evolved into a nonprofit that streamlines... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
how fortunate I am, especially in light of my dad’s history. I’m also happy that my son Ricky has started taking an interest in helping too. For example, he led a workshop introducing the kids to Scratch programming, and donated his own... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
market. As an individual, you don’t want to stand out on a street corner and tap people on the shoulder and ask them if they’d like to donate their eggs or their sperm to you. You want an arm’s-length transaction. That creates a nice... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
affordable-housing development, and commercial revitalization. Total revenues for Allen will soon top $25 million per year, with about half coming from donations to the church (the cathedral’s average weekly collection is $235,000) and... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
chairman and president; sectionmate Paul Schwarzbaum (MBA 1988) agreed to serve as a director. “We aim to protect industrialized societies against the long-term collapse of infrastructure through technical and regulatory solutions,” says Popik, who View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
five grandchildren. A celebration of Uyterhoeven’s life will be held in Vero Beach on Tuesday, Feb. 6, at 10:30 a.m., in the John’s Island Golf Club Ballroom and at Harvard Business School on Saturday, May 5 at 10:30 a.m. in the Spangler Center. In lieu of flowers,... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
supply-demand issues—the need for donated bone marrow and stem cells that is so challenging for patients with diseases like leukemia—and that there were more people in need than there were in supply,” she says. “What was liquid gold, for... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Research Brief: Pocket Change
Illustration by Jim Frazier Women and ethnic minorities donate small amounts of money to political candidates in ways that have helped to democratize the American electoral process, suggests Associate Professor Vincent Pons. In his “Small Campaign Donors” paper, Pons... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken