Fundraising
An Evening With Champions
Colin McManus lifts Anastasia Cannuscio during Evening with Champions, a charity figure skating show run by Harvard students benefiting the Jimmy Fund for cancer research.
Seniors Select First and Second Marshals
Reylon A. Yount ’16 lives in Lowell House and is studying East Asian Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy. Jessica A. Barzilay ’16, a Crimson news editor, lives in Dunster House and studies History and Science.
Harvard’s Capital Campaign Crosses $6 Billion Mark
Harvard has raised more than $6 billion in gifts and pledges in its capital campaign, charging still closer to its public goal of $6.5 billion.
FAS Campaign Progress
While fundraising for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has far exceeded its goal, some campaign priorities—such as House renewal and financial aid—lag, according to an internal August report on Faculty of Arts and Sciences campaign progress.
Overall Target in Reach, Smaller Campaign Goals Remain
An internal report shows that some fundraising areas in the Harvard Campaign still have a ways to go, even as it approaches its overall $6.5 billion goal.
Warren Alpert Foundation Gifts $20 Million to Medical School
The gift to Harvard Medical school will fund immunology research, a new professorship, and a Dean’s Leadership Fund.
SEAS Gains a 'Bumper Crop' of Eight Faculty Members
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has brought in eight new professors this fall, plus its new dean, the largest addition to the school's faculty in the last five years.
Soldiers Field Renamed Jordan Field
Soldiers Field, which served as the home of the men’s and women’s varsity lacrosse and soccer teams for five years, is now called Jordan Field.
$15 Million Gift Will Fund Public Service Initiatives
Mindich’s $15 million donation also boosts Harvard’s capital campaign, which is on track to become the most ambitious fundraising drive in higher education history.
Despite Progress, No Plans To Raise Campaign Target
University President Drew G. Faust wants to target future fundraising at campaign priorities that have not yet attracted major giving.
Harvard Hangs with POTUS on Martha's Vineyard
Some of Harvard’s top donors have been swinging sticks and rubbing elbows with the president this summer—and we’re not talking about Drew G. Faust.
As SEAS Dean, Doyle Will Face Opportunities and Challenges
Francis J. Doyle III will take the helm of a school that just received the largest donation in Harvard’s history and that is slated to relocate to Allston in just four years.
A $400 Million Gift, and Accompanying Scrutiny
Administrators maintain that the criticism will do little to hurt their fundraising efforts, but one fact remains: John Paulson’s record gift to SEAS has brought record scrutiny to Harvard’s $6.5 billion capital campaign.
'Timely' Gift Will Lend SEAS Momentum in Era of Transition
The record $400 million donation from hedge fund magnate John A. Paulson that renamed the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences comes during a transitional phase of a school whose enrollment has fast outgrown its resources.
SEAS Gift Announcement
University President Drew G. Faust and hedge fund magnate John A. Paulson shake hands at an event announcing Paulson's $400 million gift to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Construction Underway, Kennedy School Targets Active Learning in Campus Expansion
Kennedy School of Government faculty and staff are working alongside an incessant “banging” noise as construction on the school’s dramatic campus expansion is underway.
Paul Choi, Chicago Lawyer, Will Head Alumni Association
Paul L. Choi ’86, a Chicago-based lawyer, takes the reigns of the association during a University-wide $6.5 billion capital campaign—the largest in Harvard’s history that would be a record in higher education.
What the Outside World Thinks of Harvard’s Biggest Gift
Malcolm Gladwell tweeted, “Harvard's pitch to Paulson: not all privileged people are equally privileged!”
Record $400 Million Gift Renames SEAS
The gift will establish a permanent endowment for SEAS—which will now be known as the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences—as the school prepares to move into new facilities in Allston, Harvard announced on Wednesday.
Radcliffe Raises $44 Million in Capital Campaign
The Radcliffe campaign goal of $70 million constitutes about 1 percent of the University-wide capital campaign goal of $6.5 billion.
Q & A with Harry R. Lewis
Harry R. Lewis '68, interim dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, sat down with The Crimson to discuss fundraising, computer science, and SEAS’s move to Allston.
Promoting the Harvard Campaign
Spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year, Harvard pulls out all the stops as it seeks to break a fundraising record.
Chan Gift Has Public Health Faculty Optimistic
A historic gift brings the School of Public Health promise for the future and optimism for the present.
Returning to High Returns
High expectations await Stephen Blyth, Harvard Management Company’s new CEO.
Opportunity in Crisis: Selling the Humanities
As universities nationwide experience a crisis in the humanities, Harvard embarks on its first major fundraising campaign for the arts.