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Not every business executive has an intellectual interest in poverty and a spare $7 million on hand to fund research on it.
But Malcom H. Wiener '57 is that rare exception.
In June he gave the Kennedy School of Government $7 million to fund the school's 18-month-old poverty studies center.
The grant was the second largest in the school's history, and Kennedy School administrators painted it as a final victory for Dean Graham T. Allison '62, who left office this summer after a decade at the helm.
Before the Wiener gift the poverty studies center had lacked major funding. Officials said the new money would go to house the institute and to endow two professorships in poverty and health.
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