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Page Excerpt: Donations plummeted to about $8. 8 million that year.
Page Excerpt: The increase suggests schools are succeeding in expanding their donor pools.
But while total alumni giving rose 2 percent to $6.
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Archbishop Sean O'Malley called it a "heartwarming sign" after three years of fallout from the scandal, which saw numerous priests defrocked.
However, the fund-raising campaign still fell far short of the $17 million the archdiocese raised before the scandal erupted in early 2002.
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The Boston Archdiocese said it raised $10. 85 million in 2004 through its annual fund drive, an increase of more than $500,000 over the previous year.
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The overall increase followed zero growth in 2003, and a decline in 2002 — the first since 1988.
Kaplan credited a stronger economy and more effective fund-raising.
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