Fundraising
China Care Carnival Raises Funds for Orphan's Surgery
Children enjoyed activities like origami, calligraphy, and dragon face paint at a carnival on Sunday, intended to bring adopted Chinese children in the U.S. together for a day of fun while raising money to help a boy in a Chinese orphanage.
Charity Concert Raises Funds for Victims of Floods and Famine
One World, a charity concert benefiting victims of famine in the Horn of Africa and of floods in Pakistan, was held in Memorial Church on Friday night.
Winthrop Receives Funding for Speaker Series
Winthrop’s Senior Common Room Speaker Series will receive funding from the David B. Perini and Robert W. Woods Memorial Endowment Fund, established by Winthrop House alumni John J. Cullinane ’86 and William N. Thorndike ’86 to commemorate their deceased roommates.
Safar: A Journey of Taste Banquet
If you're on campus and tired of eating cereal for dinner (or worse, setting fire to your hall kitchen attempting to cook pasta), tonight you can satisfy your taste buds with the exotic cuisines of Pakistan, India, and the Middle East at Safar: A Journey of Taste, a banquet organized by Harvard students to support the millions of Pakistanis who are still suffering in the wake of the 2010-2011 floods that destroyed much of the country's arable land.
Fundraising Through Henna
Margot Leger '13 is a runner, a lover of words, and a creative fundraiser. This April she is combining two things that most of us have probably only ever considered doing—running a marathon and getting a henna tattoo. Leger, fundraising in support of the American Medical Athletic Association (AMAA), is asking friends and family to donate words, at five dollars apiece, that she will henna onto her body before she runs the distance.
Warren Brings Campaign to the Golden State
Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren hit the road this week in an effort to tap into the pocketbooks of wealthy Democrats around the country as her Senate campaign gains momentum nationwide.
Sound the Horn
Abdinasir Egal, a Human Rights Officer who works for the African Rights Monitor in Cambridge, speaks at Friday night's Sound the Horn event, organized by the Harvard African Student Association. Egal argues that life-threatening issues facing the Somalian people are still ongoing, despite what the media might have been portraying.
HLS To House a Falik Bathroom
Male students, faculty, and visitors to the Law School’s new Wasserstein Hall will have the opportunity to use the newly christened “Falik Men’s Room”—a cleverly named restroom bequeathed by Harvard Law School graduate William A. Falik.
Saudi Prince Who Funded Harvard Program Visits
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia—who donated $20 million to create the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard in 2005—discussed the future of the Middle East at a panel on Wednesday.
UC Loans Program Launches
The Undergraduate Council announced that its new Loans Pilot Program—an initiative which will enable the Council to bankroll more student-run programming—will go live starting this week.
Faust Strengthens Ties in India
This past week University President Drew G. Faust travelled to Mumbai and Delhi, visiting schools and strengthening Harvard’s ties with India.
Warren and Brown Form Truce on Super-PAC Spending
For nearly two weeks, both Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Senator Scott Brown have called for limitations on third-party spending in the upcoming Massachusetts Senate election. But though the two camps will sit down Friday to discuss the proposition, Harvard professors have called this temporary cease-fire a political stunt that will not have much influence on the race.
HBS Breaks Ground on Tata Hall
Harvard Business School leaders held a breaking-ground ceremony on Friday to honor Indian tycoon Ratan N. Tata and officially begin ...
Harvard China Care Raises $25,000
Harvard China Care raised $25,000 on Friday to support the operation of a special care unit room in an orphanage in Beijing at an annual benefit dinner.
