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Nearly 54,000 Catholics contributed, up about 20 percent from the year before. 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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1 percent decline in giving by foundations. Among alumni, total giving rose slightly, but the percentage of alumni donating fell, as it has every year since 2001. Harvard University led the list by raising $540 million, according to the latest annual survey by the Council for Aid to Education, a unit of the RAND Corporation.

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4 billion, according to a report released Wednesday. The increase was driven by a 9. 7 percent increase in giving from individual donors, including a 21.

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"Alumni who make small gifts tend to be the people who end up making large gifts," she said. The Voluntary Support of Education Survey was based on replies from 971 institutions, a group that accounts for about 85 percent of voluntary support raised by colleges and universities. ___ On the Net: http://www.

I thought that this was awesome when I first read it...

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. Donations plummeted to about $8.