Tag: Community Service

  • Nation & World

    How I spent my summer serving others

    Over the past summer, 15 Harvard students helped communities around the country as part of the Presidential Public Service Fellowship (PPSF). President Larry Bacow honored them at a luncheon this month.

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    Luncheon with students
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    College grad finds ‘endless’ opportunities in public service

    Omar Khoshafa ’17 has been named this year’s Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow.

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    A focus on veterans

    Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership hosted a day of service for students to give back to veterans in the community.

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    Slowing down to see more

    An undergraduate finds her path to satisfying public service by searching among the alternatives she sampled to discover the best fit for her.

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    Faith in good works

    Harvard undergraduates from many faiths will gather at the Student Organization Center at Hilles on Nov. 20 to package meals for hungry Boston-area children. The interfaith community service event is part of the Values in Action program launched this fall by Harvard’s Humanist Chaplaincy.

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    A step up through Year Up

    In the Year Up program, high school graduates and GED recipients are provided with six months of training in professional skills and education, followed by six-month internships at their corporate partners, including Harvard.

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    Campus club on listening seeks members

    The Listening Club, a burgeoning Harvard organization, is now seeking members.

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    Teach for America taps talent

    More than three dozen Harvard graduates will join Teach for America this fall, as the University remains among the nation’s top contributors to the national education program.

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    Bench pressing for a cure

    On May 3, more than 250 Harvard athletes from 18 varsity teams took the Palmer-Dixon Gymnasium by storm for the second annual Bench Press for Breast Cancer Challenge, pumping iron and raising greenbacks for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

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    A key player on the field and off

    Softball co-captain Melissa Schellberg ’10 leaves her mark on the Harvard community.

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    In their words

    Harvard students and alums share thoughts on service while doing community service work in the South.

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    PBHA vies for $1 million award

    The good deeds of Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) are being handsomely rewarded through a Facebook contest grant, and there may be more assistance in the wings.

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    Around the Schools

    As part of a student-initiated community development project to promote civic engagement and rural development in the Mississippi Delta, nine Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) students will spend 10 days in January in Greenwood, Miss. working on service projects for the community.

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    Getting involved

    “Since I realize that direct service is only one aspect of assisting, I became more involved with advocacy, working on education issues and with PBHA’s Student Labor Action Movement.”

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    ‘Call of Service’

    Harvard will begin a week of events and activities relating to service and outreach and involving Schools across the University community. The programs will help to highlight the richness of the public service landscape at Harvard and will introduce students to the many varieties and pathways into service around the University.

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    Service: Cambridge to Capitol Hill

    A Harvard education includes a healthy dose of service, as illustrated by students working in positions from Cambridge to Capitol Hill.

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    New Crimson Kids Program offers free football and more

    Harvard University is kicking off the 2009 football season with a new “Crimson Kids” program.

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    New report highlights depth of Harvard’s community engagement

    In a single year, approximately 7,000 Harvard University students collectively performed more than 900,000 hours of community service work in and around metropolitan Boston, according to a new report released Thursday (July 23). This commitment by Harvard students in 2005-06 was the equivalent of having 450 people working full time, year-round, providing community services in…

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    Harvard: Leadership through service

    Harvard fosters a culture of community service that embraces those who study, teach and work here. An essential component of today’s Harvard education is the call to serve the greater community, both locally and globally.

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    Service and Civil Rights

    Harvard students spend Spring Break helping others and learning lessons along the Tallahatchie River.

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    Turning Crimson to gold

    The Crimson Summer Academy provides yearlong mentoring to economically disadvantaged high school students in Boston and Cambridge.

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    Inaugural Day of Service set for Sept. 29

    The Harvard Undergraduate Council, the Harvard Graduate Council, and the Phillip Brooks House Association have partnered to coordinate the first University-wide Day of Service on Sept. 29.

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    Lectores y Amiguitos: Reading and sharing

    Katie Ferrari (right) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) reads with second-grader Alicia Morency from the Amigos School on Putnam Avenue. Ferrari participates in the Lectores y Amiguitos program managed by the Office of School Partnerships and Cambridge School Volunteers.

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  • Nation & World

    ‘Being good for something’

    In her classroom, Sherri Geng ’09 has put up a quote from Henry David Thoreau: “Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.” Being good for something and thereby becoming an agent of change is an idea she wants to get across to her students. “If you’re truly invested in what you’re…

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    Schweitzer Fellows commit to community service

    Honoring the legacy of Albert Schweitzer, area graduate students are committing to a year of service with a community agency. In a competitive selection process, 29 students — including six from Harvard — were recently selected as 2007-08 Boston Schweitzer Fellows.

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