We donated $1.0 million to support Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Programme. This programme is part of the wider Scholars at Risk network, based at New York University. The network derives from arrangements made by U.S. and U.K. universities to save Jewish scholars from Nazi persecution in the 1930's. Since 2000, it has helped persecuted scholars worldwide by arranging temporary positions for them in universities in the US and elsewhere.

The Harvard programme provides a fellowship for at least one scholar per year to come to Harvard. The scholar is selected by an interdisciplinary faculty committee, which reviews nominations solicited from throughout the university community. Each scholar is hosted as a visiting fellow in the appropriate academic department.

Any scholar who faces a risk of persecution on account of belief, scholarship or identity is eligible. He or she can work in any discipline represented at Harvard and need not be a refugee scholar. Only scholars who meet appropriate academic standards in their fields are considered.

The fellowship is intended to provide a safe, if temporary, environment for scholars to pursue research and scholarly interests; it is not envisaged as an opportunity to mobilize political support on the issues causing the scholar's predicament, (though such activity is not excluded). Some fellows return to their home country once it is safe, whilst others pursue refugee or asylum status.