91101 Fund To Aid Children

Members of the Harvard community last week established the 91101 Fund in an effort to provide aid to the families of victims in last week’s terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

Harvard Business School graduate Daniel Curran, who is currently a research associate on the HBS staff, helped to create the fund as “a way to raise funds and to provide financial and organizational management assistance to the independent associations that fund the long-term educational needs of the children of victims.”

The group will focus on the children who most need it—those whose parents were low-wage workers and who will not benefit from their parents’ life insurance or aid from the government, Red Cross or worker’s unions.

The 91101 Fund aims to raise $100,000 from Harvard groups to fund the effort and to provide a means for community members to offer their services to the victims’ groups.

The fund has also received an overwhelming amount of support from online firms and volunteer organizations including the Carr Foundation, Project America, the Family Education Network, and the Center for Youth as Resources.

Curran says the 91101 Fund’s philosophy—that the workings of local, everyday life are “inextricably linked to the global village”—runs parallel to the ideals of the Harvard Progressive Student Labor Movement and prompted him to contact them as well.

“It’s above all important that we help to insure those most vulnerable to financial insecurity,” said Benjamin D. Grizzle ’03, who is also a Crimson editor.

Supporters can contribute to the 91101 Fund at its website, www.91101fund.org.

In addition to the 91101 Fund, Curran has also established the 91101 Group, an online support group for victims to discuss the attack, why it happened, how to come to terms with it and what their response should be.