Harvard Serves
Club Seeks Public Service Projects for April Alumni Program
During the month of April 2010, the Harvard community, alumni and undergraduates alike, are invited to participate in a public service initiative. Inspired by Harvard President Drew Faust's exhortation to apply “our knowledge to help advance the well-being of people in the world beyond our walls,” the Harvard Club of Southern California will be working to spearhead these efforts locally, through its newly-formed Public Service Task Force. The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) will be working to coordinate efforts nationally and globally.
The public service initiative, called “Harvard Serves,” hopes to mobilize all 330,000 Harvard alumni and the extended Harvard family - including the 12,500 in Southern California - to volunteer our time and efforts in our own communities.
Our Club’s local Public Service Task Force has already signed up 11 local service organizations to offer opportunities in an exciting range of projects: from ecological, to educational, to food delivery, to inner-city youth, to music in underserved communities. Do you sit on the board of a non-profit organization? Are you active with a favorite charity? How might they be able to use a team of people in April? Would you be interested in helping to organize our April event? Please let us know. Liz Ryan, Harvard Club of Southern California Public Service Coordinator and Elected HAA director from Los Angeles, lryan.ryanworks@gmail.com, has kindly agreed to spearhead our efforts in Southern California. For more information on Harvard’s public service activites in April, email harvardserves@post.harvard.edu.