I think the proposal for 500k is optimistic but can't hurt. .
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Lisa New <_________
Dear Jeffrey,
> wrote:
Larry has told me that you and a friend would like to contribute to my project (hallelujah and thank you a
million times, Jeffrey) and that I ought to write up a proposal asking for 500,000. This is wonderful. If this
comes to pass, the best way for that money to come, I think, is as a gift to Poetry in America, an initiative at
EdLabs at Harvard University. This will give me discretion over its disbursement to HarvardX and WGBH,
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