Tag: endowment
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Event: Sustainable Endowments Director speaks TOMORROW
Susan Paykin of SEA renown fills us in on a great event. I’m going… hope to see you there! The College Sustainability Report Card 2010 was released this week, revealing that our overall grade rose from last year’s report from a “B-” to a “B”! The Report Card, published by the Sustainable Endowments Institute and available […]
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Will Brandeis Get a Mystery Gift?
Colleges across the country are getting mysterious donations numbering in the millions of dollars from secret donors. NPR: A mystery is unfolding in the world of college fundraising: During the past few weeks, at least eight universities have received gifts totaling nearly $45 million, and the schools had to promise not to try to find […]
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Building a Wider Donor Base
It’s no secret that Brandeis’s fundraising is much too slow right now and that the Madoff scheme is a big reason why. The failing economy would be a huge handicap on it’s own, but dealing with the greatest theft in history targeted mostly toward our greatest donor base has made our situation critical. We know […]
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UP my MIFA: the only viable way to save the Rose?
Regardless of your feelings on the Rose (in)decision, its obvious that the ridiculous fashion by which it was made was, in Reinharz’s own words, “screwed up.” But when you start talking about the actual idea of selling art to close our budget deficit, things get a bit murkier. We need to find $79 million fast, and […]
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Madoff Investor List released (Brandeis is sort of on it)
A former editor of the Justice pointed this out to us: A list of investors and interested parties in the Bernie Madoff bankruptcy case has been released. Brandeis University, along with important donors like the Shapiros, are on the list. At first glance, this would seem to indicate that the University did indeed invest with […]